TracPlus Automated Flight and Engine Time Reporting
February 2nd, 2009TracPlus Global has launched a new flight and engine time reporting service, which it will provide to its customers at no additional cost. TracPlus Global CEO Chris Hinch referred to the administrative overhead faced by operators in order to ensure accurate charging for their customers. “Our customers spend a significant amount of time collating flight and engine time records to ensure that accurate invoices are raised. In increasingly challenging market conditions, it is increasingly important to ensure that this work can be done quickly and accurately.”
The new service automatically generates highly accurate trip reports from engine start, stop, takeoff and landing events from aircraft fitted with compatible tracking terminals and sensors. TracPlus users can log into the TracPlus website and generate reports on aircraft activity, including customised reports that can be included with a customer’s invoice. These reports can also be used to clearly and definitively demonstrate an operator’s compliance with restrictions such as DOC concessions.
The new service supports any TracPlus-compatible terminal that is capable of airborne and engine run events, including FlightCell and NAL Research equipment. TracPlus Global is also working closely with aircraft engineers to improve the range and reliability of sensors that can be used with these terminals.
“In helicopters, simple collective switches have traditionally been used as takeoff and landing indicators. However, in the absence of any other sensors, these are prone to error and can potentially classify an autorotation as a normal landing. What is needed are smarter and non-intrusive sensors, and we are working with industry experts to help them deliver these to our customers,” concluded Hinch.
TracPlus has been delivering aviation, maritime and terrestrial tracking services to private and commercial operators, companies, government agencies and emergency services around the world since the product was officially launched in August 2007.
