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AeroSoft Systems Inc. is pleased to announce that Amerijet International Airlines has selected DigiDOC to provide a digital Content Management System to support its aircraft maintenance operations.

The agreement, signed on June 28th, 2013, covers the implementation of AeroSoft’s DigiDOC Content Management System (CMS) for Task Card Management along with Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETP), processing of OEM revisions and Maintenance Program management.

DigiDOC will be integrated with Amerijet’s MRO system – the latest version of AeroSoft’s WebPMI – a solution covering all the areas of airline maintenance and regulatory compliance.

SEATTLE, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received FAA approval to fly Required Navigation Performance – Authorization Required (RNP AR) procedures on the 787 fleet. Operators that fly RNP AR procedures significantly reduce fuel burn, emissions and airport congestion by flying precisely along a predefined route using advanced on-board navigation systems together with GPS-based global navigation satellite systems. As an FAA-approved RNP application service provider, Boeing can now offer 787 customers full support as they apply for approval to use RNP AR procedures on their fleets.

“This approval enables us to help Boeing customers realize the full potential of their 787s,” said Mike Caflisch, director, Airspace Programs, Boeing Digital Aviation, Commercial Aviation Services. “Our extensive experience in obtaining RNP AR operational approvals allows us to help customers move through the rigorous RNP AR operational approval process more efficiently, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. In the long run, all industry stakeholders benefit as more airlines derive fuel and operating efficiencies via RNP, the overall efficiency of global air traffic improves and the environmental footprint is reduced.”

Boeing can now offer a complete, end-to-end RNP solution by combining its expertise in RNP AR application development and approved training with its experience in the design and implementation of new RNP flight procedures, navigation database validation and RNP availability prediction.

Achieving regulatory approval requires an airplane operator to demonstrate that they have:

• Airplanes equipped to fly narrow, GPS-guided RNP AR flight procedures, requiring accuracy down to as little as one-tenth of a nautical mile
• Training in place for flight crews and dispatchers
• The ability to ensure sufficient GPS coverage for the planned route at the planned date and time (RNP availability prediction)
• Flight crew operating procedures
• The ability to ensure that RNP navigation charts and databases are accurate and current (navigation database validation)
• Flight procedures designed and in place.

Boeing RNP AR application services are already available to operators of Next-Generation 737s, Boeing Business Jets and 777s.

About the Boeing Edge

Boeing offers a comprehensive portfolio of commercial aviation services, collectively known as the Boeing Edge, bringing value and advantages to customers and the industry. Boeing Digital Aviation is the business unit that delivers the Boeing Edge through integrated offerings in software, applications, information solutions and advanced training to drive optimized performance, efficiency and safety across customer operations. Boeing provides a competitive edge by solving real operational problems, enabling better decisions, maximizing efficiency and improving environmental performance – creating intelligent information solutions across the aviation ecosystem.

Contact:
Elizabeth Holleman
Boeing Digital Aviation Communications
+1 206-766-1069
elizabeth.a.holleman@boeing.com

Rusada are very pleased to announce that the Beechcraft team got the Tampa Service center live with Envision on schedule at the start of June 2013.

This was the first site that was wholly managed by the in house Beechcraft installation team with minimal remote support from Rusada. As usual the plan was executed with precision and no problems were reported. The policy of train the trainer has paid dividends on this project and has been a significant cost saving for Beechcraft. It has been reported that in just a few short months the Beechcraft Global Support organization is seeing significant efficiency savings.

KTPA Tampa Intl Airport:

The FAA-certified service center provides a full range of capabilities, such as avionics installations, modifications and repair, quick-turn maintenance and custom interior modifications for Hawker and Beechcraft products, and holds foreign certification for EASA, Brazil and Venezuela.

They can be contacted via hbs_tpa@beechcraft.com

Give them a call, not only will they do a great job on your aircraft, they will tell you how great Envision is too!

Zurich, Switzerland – 24 June 2013 – Aviaso announces the successful implementation of its fuel conservation software at Aer Lingus. The Aviaso software supports Aer Lingus in its comprehensive fuel savings program that saves millions of euros in fuel and carbon emissions.

Anne Bradley, Director Operations Logistics at Aer Lingus said, “Aer Lingus selected Aviaso following a comprehensive and competitive tender process. Our criteria for selection included fuel efficiency know-how, customer focus, flexibility and proven track record in complex software projects. Aviaso provided excellent support throughout the project which helped us to successfully achieve our project goals, despite the demanding requirements.”

The fuel efficiency software of Aviaso receives data from all fuel and flight relevant IT systems of an airline. In the case of Aer Lingus, the data from more than 10 different IT systems is used. A crucial aspect is to have high data quality. Therefore, the data is checked, validated, and possibly adjusted before it is used for analyses. The fuel efficiency software includes more than 100 ready-made analysis reports. These reports allow Aer Lingus to achieve transparency over its fuel consumption and to identify its fuel savings potential. In addition to identify fuel savings, the Aviaso software also supports Aer Lingus in achieving these savings by rigorously monitoring the various fuel savings initiatives for each and every flight. 

“Applying the ‘common’ fuel efficiency initiatives is nowadays well established at many airlines. However, it is possible to achieve further fuel savings, as several of our airline clients demonstrate”, observes Rudolf Christen, CEO of Aviaso. “The key is ‘measure to manage’. An airline needs to monitor day-by-day and flight-by-flight which initiatives are making progress and which are not. Such a comprehensive monitoring is one of the key functions of our fuel conservation software”.

About Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus (www.aerlingus.com) is the national airline of Ireland founded in 1936 whose primary mission is to connect Ireland with the world by offering the best product with award winning customer service at low fares. Aer Lingus, with its fleet of 56 aircraft operates from central airport locations in the UK, Europe and North America serving in excess of 11 million passengers annually direct to over 70 destinations in 24 countries worldwide and provides seamless global connectivity with its partner airlines including United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Air Canada, Etihad Airways and Aer Arann.

About Aviaso
Aviaso (www.aviaso.com) is an international software company developing products exclusively for the aviation industry. The focus of Aviaso is on complex, operational aviation topics such as Fuel Efficiency, EU-ETS, Aviation Reporting, and Crew Communication. Additionally, Aviaso has a long experience in integrating aviation IT systems and also develops the Aviation Portal – a leading intranet solution for aviation companies.

Contacts

Aviaso Inc.
Denitsa Mihaylovska
+41 55 422 0000
denitsa.mihaylovska@aviaso.com

Aer Lingus Press & Media Relations.
Gillian Culhane
Head of Press & Media Relations
Tel: 353 1 8862350
Fax:353 1 8863855

Aviation InfoTech solutions provider, Sheorey Digital Systems Ltd. (SDS), today announced the confirmation of an order from the Gulf Helicopters Company (GHC) for its latest application and EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) Solution: ARMS® on the TAB.

With this acquisition, Doha, Qatar based GHC’s Helicopter Operations will benefit from a completely integrated EFB solution. ARMS® on the TAB is an integral component of the ARMS®V2 (Aviation Resource Management System, Ver. 2.0) application suite from SDS and many of its components are already in use at GHC. This affords GHC a significant advantage of having an EFB solution that is fully integrated with the back office and Ops systems.

Commenting on the development, MD & CEO of Sheorey Digital Systems, Vivek Sheorey expressed his deep pleasure on the choice exercised by GHC and added that the adoption of ARMS® on the TAB by GHC is a logical extension of the ARMS®V2 deployment and adds tremendous value to GHC’s offshore operations by providing anytime-anyplace accessibility as a fully mobile application.

Reflecting the growing trend towards adoption of Tablet devices across Air Operations and Engineering, ARMS® on the Tab delivers the attributes and values of the versatile ARMS® V2 application suite, via any user-defined Tablet platform.

About SDS:

Sheorey Digital Systems Ltd. (SDS), is an ISO 9001:2008 & 27001:2005 certified, established Indian InfoTech company specialising in Aviation and Information Management domains. SDS strives to provide radically efficient and cost-effective software solutions for the Air Transportation industry.

SDS’s flagship product – ARMS® (Aviation Resource Management System) is a highly integrated, flexible and scalable enterprise‐class software solution, designed exclusively for the Air Transportation industry.

For Business/Media enquiries, please write to: contact@sds.co.in

Le Bourget, France, June 19, 2013 Eurocopter today announced its global partnership Ramco Systems, the global Aviation Software provider on cloud, mobile and tablets. Both companies will join forces to offer state-of-the-art helicopter maintenance software which will ease the life of operators and maintenance centers

This partnership agreement, formally signed at the 2013 Paris Air Show, enables Eurocopter and Ramco Systems to offer additional mobility and functionality for the collection and treatment of MRO-related data, thereby providing highly effective and cost-efficient fleet management services that are affordable and user friendly for all operators – including those with smaller numbers of helicopters.

“Ramco’s cloud-based maintenance software solution is an outstanding addition to our service offering,” said Matthieu Louvot, Senior Vice President of Support and Services. “The partnership will bring us closer to our customers’ maintenance operations, enabling us to offer them the best quality of service.”

Commenting on the global partnership, P. R. Venketrama Raja, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Ramco Systems, said said “The strength and capability of our Aviation solution gets a global endorsement with Eurocopter, the number one civil and parapublic helicopter manufacturer, choosing Ramco for its functionality, cloud-based solution with mobility, new user interface and role-based WorkSpaces. Ramco Aviation on Cloud is modular which makes it user friendly for small and large operators”.

With tens of thousands of parts in an aircraft, tracking and managing each stage of maintenance work would become unmanageable without a user friendly and comprehensive M&E/ MRO solution. The Ramco-Eurocopter cloud based MRO software addresses the unique needs of smaller Operators, MROs and CAMOs, which until now had to either run on disparate point solutions or operate manually using paper/ excel to track maintenance and manage safety and regulatory compliance.

Read more about Eurocopter – Ramco Partnership

News at a Glance:

• China Airlines begins phase two of their Maintenix implementation
• Expansion includes materials, engine and shop capabilities, and support for 3rd party MRO
• Phase two also begins upgrade to Maintenix v8

Ottawa, Canada and Singapore (June 19, 2013) – Mxi® Technologies, the leader in aviation maintenance management software, announced today that China Airlines has confirmed phase two of their Maintenix implementation with footprint expansion into materials, engine and component shop, and the company’s Engineering and Maintenance Organization, as well as integration to their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Phase two also signals China Airlines upgrade to version 8 of the Maintenix software, introducing key usability and process enhancements across the entirety of their MRO operations.

“Investing in safety is of paramount importance at China Airlines, both for our passengers and our MRO customers, and it is this commitment that has made us a leader in aircraft maintenance in the region” says Derek Cridland, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Maintenance, China Airlines. “With the expansion and upgrade of the Maintenix software we are able to continue to deliver on our promise of world-class service while keeping pace with the latest technologies in support of ongoing business objectives.”

In addition to a number of efficiency benefits, the technology backbone of the Maintenix v8 software supports China Airlines’ move to real-time management of line and heavy maintenance events as data is captured at the point of maintenance execution.

“As a long-standing customer of Mxi Technologies, China Airlines has continuously demonstrated their dedication to best practices in aviation maintenance, and this program expansion and upgrade is no exception,” says Dave Seibel, Chairman and CEO, Mxi Technologies. “We look forward to our continued partnership and supporting them through the second phase of their implementation.”

With phase two, Mxi Technologies is the single-source provider for MRO IT across the entire organization and operating fleet, including their Boeing 747 and 737, and Airbus A340 and A330 fleet types.

About China Airlines

Founded in 1959, China Airlines is Taiwan’s largest airline with more than 10,000 employees worldwide and a fleet of 80 aircraft in the China Airlines Group. As one of SkyTeam airline alliance’s 19 members, China Airlines offers passengers access to an extensive global network of more than 15,000 daily flights to 1000 destinations in 187 countries. China Airlines, the airline with the top mind-share according to the Management Magazine’s “2013 Consumer Brand Survey”, is committed to promoting innovative, high-quality passenger experience and caring services, including the retrofitting of Boeing 747-400 aircraft with brand new seats and entertainment systems, in-flight meals that combine the best of Chinese, Western and Taiwanese cuisine, as well as mobile phone and online services that satisfy passengers’ demand for convenient access.

About Mxi Technologies

Mxi Technologies provides integrated, intelligent aviation maintenance management software, bringing innovation and thought leadership to aviation organizations seeking to improve their labor productivity.  The Mxi Maintenix® software uses a modern architecture and provides advanced capabilities such as a role-based Web browser interface, automated workflow, integration adapters, electronic signatures, and support for portable wireless devices. In addition to supplying Maintenix, Mxi provides a full range of services including Maintenix implementation, business consulting, systems integration, training, and support.

June 18, 2013 (TORONTO) – Navtech Inc., a leader in flight operations software and services, is pleased to announce a new investor in Navtech.  Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a global private investment firm, has committed to support Navtech’s international efforts to provide airlines with high-quality, mission-critical aeronautical products and services including aeronautical charts, navigation data, and flight planning, aircraft performance, and crew planning software solutions.

VSS, based in New York and London, invests in information, education, media, marketing and business services, now including aviation software and services from Navtech.  The VSS team of experienced professionals brings wide ranging experience across a variety of industries to the relationship with Navtech’s management.  VSS joins Cambridge Information Group (CIG), a family owned investment firm focused on education, research and information services, and Externalis, a European based investment firm, as continuing Navtech investors.

“This new mix of investors shows confidence in Navtech and our growth strategy,” said Mike Hulley, Navtech President and CEO. “We will leverage this investment to expand our market share in our traditional European footprint, the Asia Pacific region, and in North America.”

“We believe that Navtech’s state of the art, SaaS applications are well positioned to help airlines increase safety, maximize efficiency, and reduce operating costs,” said David Bainbridge, Partner, VSS Structured Capital Funds. “With its recently upgraded product portfolio, the company will continue to capture global market share and lead the development of electronic flight bag solutions.”  Navtech has operating offices in Canada, the UK and Sweden and is supported by satellite staff worldwide.

About Navtech, Inc.

Navtech, Inc. is a leading global provider of flight operations solutions, serving more than 350 airlines and aviation services customers.  Navtech’s product suite includes aeronautical charts, navigation data solutions, flight planning, aircraft performance software (take-off/landing, weight and balance), and crew planning solutions.  Many of Navtech’s products can be configured as part of an EFB solution, including take-off data calculation, weight and balance, and aeronautical charts.  These products, supported by Navtech’s ISO: 9001 certification, directly support millions of flights each year and help Navtech customers maximize efficiency, reduce costs, ensure compliance with complex national and international safety regulations, and effectively deliver their services.

Navtech is an international company with offices just outside Toronto in Waterloo, Ontario — Canada’s technology center – and in Stockholm, London, and Ahmedabad, India, and is further supported by satellite offices around the world.  Its home on the web www.navtech.aero is the first and only site for viewing the Navtech Aviation Poster Collection, a collection of hundreds of posters and other ephemera that capture the history of aviation through the arresting graphic design of the day.

Contact:
Andrea Murray, +1 519-747-1170 or amurray@navtech.aero
Tanya Dessereau, +1 212-381-8556 or dessereaut@vss.com

About Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS)

Veronis Suhler Stevenson is a private equity and debt capital fund management company dedicated to investing in the business services, information, education, media, and marketing industries in North America and Europe. VSS provides capital for buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings and strategic acquisitions to lower middle-market companies and management teams with a goal to build companies both organically and through a focused add-on acquisition program.

Since the closing of the first VSS Buyout Fund in 1987, VSS has managed four Buyout Funds and two Structured Capital Funds with initial capital commitments in excess of $3.1 billion. The six funds have to date invested approximately $2.8 billion in 73 portfolio companies which have in turn completed over 320 add-on acquisitions. The company’s website is www.vss.com.

About Cambridge Information Group (CIG)

Cambridge Information Group is a family owned management and investment firm, primarily focused on information services, education and technology. CIG has been investing in and building companies for long-term success for over 40 years. The executive team completed over 30 acquisitions in the last ten years including the acquisition of ProQuest Information and Learning in February 2007. Currently, the CIG family of companies employs more than 2,100 people in 26 countries. The company’s website is www.cig.com.

About Externalis

Externalis is a Belgian holding company owned by Alain Mallart, which invests in companies focusing primarily on:

• technology and data processing
• renewable energy
• recycling and landfills
• soil decontamination

Externalis employs, directly and indirectly, over 3,300 people worldwide. Alain Mallart is a well known French entrepreneur who established Novalliance in the early 1990s, a French logistics group with 12,000 employees and a turnover of US $ 1.5 billion. Alain Mallart also established GFI Informatique, a French IT company employing 6,000 people.  Since 2000, Alain Mallart has been focusing on investing his own funds in various ventures through his personal holdings Externalis (www.externalis.be) and Energipole (www.energipole.be).

Flight Focus delivers the world’s first Cabin Inflight WiFi platform for IFE&C providing up to 100% take-up rate to Air China’s A330 wide-body fleets with first concurrent certification from EASA-CAAC. 

Flight Focus has successfully installed and certified on Air China’s A330 wide-body fleet the world’s first 100% take-up rate Cabin Inflight WiFi platform solution enabling all airlines or service providers to build their own IFE&C system. Built as an open avionics computing and communications platform, the Cabin Inflight WiFi fulfills cabin-wide HD video streaming in wide-body aircrafts with more than 300 passengers, which marks its leading position in the international aviation industry.

By performing the world’s first live on-aircraft performance test with nearly 300 passengers, Flight Focus and Air China have thoroughly proven and guaranteed the real performance of the Cabin Inflight WiFi platform delivering a true 100% passenger concurrency with HD video streaming. In addition, Flight Focus and Air China were able to bring together the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to deliver the first concurrent certification program for Wireless IFE in China (STC from EASA in less than 6 months and V-STC from CAAC).

“Some companies have succeeded to install some WiFi systems before Flight Focus, but when the take up-rate goes up to 10, 15, 20, 30%, at some point, the whole WiFi network collapses. You need to be sure that you’re installing the right technology in the aircraft that can be low cost and scaled up to the top and proven for 100% take-up rate. For an IFE system, all it takes is one smart server box that both hosts content as well as manages the way passenger devices connect, coupled with a high power access point. You can run an entire plane; you can serve dynamic content, provide connectivity services, or sell products and services. You don’t need more than that. As an enabler providing Cabin platforms for IFE & Connectivity, we are helping you to get it fast and approved into the airplane, and we make sure that it’s secure to use and that you can make money.” said Ralf Cabos, managing director of Flight Focus.

“Based on Flight Focus super light, powerful and secure Cabin Inflight WiFi platform, we are building our own IFE, and we are now able to provide richer entertainment contents to passengers, fulfill the need for cabin-wide HD video streaming, and deliver smoother user experience. All it takes for our passengers is to bring their own tablets or laptops onboard. The flexible and intelligent ground synchronization system enables Air China to update IFE content easily and in-time, while the short installation time should help us to quickly complete modification of the entire fleet allowing passengers to enjoy the service as soon as possible.” commented Air China E-project Office.

Air China has become the first Chinese carrier that operates flights with on-board WiFi system. Air China will soon provide the Cabin Inflight WiFi platform on all its A330 wide-body airliners as a complete upgrade of the current system.

ABOUT FLIGHT FOCUS:

Flight Focus is an innovative provider of leading edge avionics platform solutions for Cockpit and Cabin, and a certified system integrator for aircraft connectivity (DOA/POA/MRO from CAAS & EASA). We design, develop, manufacture and deliver open computing and communications platform configurations, and we integrate versatile 3rd party applications to enable Enhanced EFB, and Wireless IFE & Connectivity solutions and services.

Flight Focus allows partners to benefit from state-of-the art and ready-made open platform configurations to offer best quality of service as well as enhanced performance in all environments (Android, iOS and Windows 8).

Flight Focus enables airlines to build their own EFB or IFE while reducing their costs (fuel, paper, communications, and operations), enhancing flight safety with real-time connectivity, and creating new communication and entertainment ancillary revenues.

Leveraging on our end-to-end vertical integration services from design and in-house certification to technical support and system upgrades, 100+ aircrafts are already flying with our proven technology and turnkey expertise.

Flight Focus Press Contact

Alexandre BENOIT
+ 60 16 36 77 470
alexandre.benoit@flightfocus.net
Follow us on LinkedIn: Flight Focus and Twitter: @flightfocus

Cordoba, Argentina. June 2013// Volartec welcomes DGAC Salta . It takes the number of Latin American customers where ALKYM®  has been implemented to more than 30 over the last twelve years. DGAC Salta has signed contracts to implement  ALKYM® aircraft maintenance control and management software.

Manuel Roche, VP of Business development LATAM at Volartec announcing the news stated “The versatility of ALKYM®  is highlighted with this customer , the flexibility and scalability of ALKYM®  its once again proven with this project with a customer having both business jets and helicopters. ”

After the selection process DGAC SALTA undertook the implementation project according to our standards of quality, having one more time an excellent impact in the daily operations of the customer.

ABOUT DGAC SALTA

Aviación Civil Salta (acs) is an official agency of the Salta’s government created back in 1957 in order to attend Salta’s state transport’s needs while contributing to the aeronautical development of the Salta state. The main responsibility of ACS is to offer free Medical Evacuation Services to the inhabitants of the state. People who do not have any Health insurance and requires evacuation to high complexity medical centers are transported to receive scheduled surgical interventions or emergency attention, either for treatment or high complexity medical tests.  Salta is a state with a modern concept of administration that allows ACS to develop its aeronautical activity as a private company with complete commercial qualifications (Air Operator’s Certificate – AOC Nº CRA.305), offering its Medical Services, Passengers and Cargo Transportation in the 135 air market. In its more than 50 years of life, ACS has acquired a wide experience with operations of high complexity Medical Evacuations, becoming the longest life organization in Latin America. ACS operates two modern Bombardier Learjet 45XR, a Bell 412 EP helicopter, a Bell 407 helicopter, and a STOL IAI Arava. These aircrafts have a dual purpose, while equipped with Intensive Care Units (ICU) for adults and with neonatology incubators; they can also be reconfigured in few minutes to an executive version.

ABOUT VOLARTEC

Volartec is one of the fastest growing IT companies in the aviation industry. Specialized in the development and implementation of world class software systems, Volartec provides the most profitable products and services of the market.

With more than 10 years of experience in the aviation industry and constituted by a highly qualified IT and aviation experts team, Volartec assures a successful combination of professionalism and experience.

For more information please visit www.volartec.aero or contact info@volartec.aero