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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
Received the following via email. If you're not already signed up to use their service, I recommend it. It's a easy simple way to get a full and legal briefing from any web connected device. And if you save your flight plan, the system will notify you by email and text whenever an adverse condition occurs.
It's a good system and worth a look.
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Dear Pilots,
As you know, Lockheed Martin has been on a mission to modernize and bring real innovation to online Flight Services. Two more big steps were taken with our May 15th 9.0 release and our June 30th 9.1 release. Recognizing that pilot safety is the top priority, we’re excited to announce inflight electronic PIREP submission along with many other enhancements and brand new capabilities not available elsewhere.
Inflight PIREP submission is the most recent component of our Flight Services Data Link strategy, building on the cockpit to ground communications capability we put in place for inflight Adverse Condition Alerting Service (ACAS) alerts and Surveillance-Enhanced Search and Rescue (SE-SAR). Every pilot knows the value of PIREPs. Our PIREP submission infrastructure lets you submit PIREPs without contacting Flight Service via radio, and Urgent PIREPs are immediately uplinked to other pilots registered for ACAS and flying in the same area. The first two vendors integrating with our PIREP submission infrastructure will be announced at AirVenture Oshkosh, with more coming right behind.
Speaking of ACAS and SE-SAR, Garmin and DeLorme have joined the group of industry partners that have integrated with those services. And, based on your feedback, we’ve improved the ACAS alert messages. The text and inflight satellite communications messages are easier to understand, and the email alerts now contain complete information about the adverse condition, including a graphic showing where it’s located along your route of flight.
NextGen Briefings just keep getting better. We’ve added color-coded time tags for intersections with adverse conditions, letting you know if a condition is active when passing (red), within an hour of being active (orange), or an hour or more from being active (green). We’ve also reorganized NOTAMs so that less frequently referenced NOTAMs (e.g., airports along the route of flight) are segregated into their own tab, and we’ve added filters to obstruction and Navaid NOTAMs to help you focus on the ones that are relevant to your flight. Plain text translation is now available for several more sections.
Wondering what’s changed since your last briefing? Our Delta Briefing capability has you covered. If you received a standard briefing for a flight (online or via specialist), all subsequent online briefings contain an automatically inserted new section under Adverse Conditions called “Delta”. It contains all new or modified adverse conditions since your last standard briefing.
Pilots can also email copies of their briefings to themselves and schedule a briefing to be generated and emailed at a specific time.
All pilot interactions with the web portal have always been recorded. Now pilots can view and print the last 15 days of their transaction history on the website (see History under the Flight Planning & Briefing menu selection).
To support flight planning, we’ve implemented our Altitude Optimization tool. It checks two levels above and below the flight plan altitude and provides time and fuel burn estimates based on forecast winds and aircraft performance characteristics. The NavLog function is also available.
You can get more details from the Announcements function in the web portal (automatically displays the first time you logon after a release, and always available under the Help menu selection).
Try it out and let us know what you think! In the meantime, we’re busy working on another batch of capabilities we’ll be deploying in the fall.
It's a good system and worth a look.
Dear Pilots,
As you know, Lockheed Martin has been on a mission to modernize and bring real innovation to online Flight Services. Two more big steps were taken with our May 15th 9.0 release and our June 30th 9.1 release. Recognizing that pilot safety is the top priority, we’re excited to announce inflight electronic PIREP submission along with many other enhancements and brand new capabilities not available elsewhere.
Inflight PIREP submission is the most recent component of our Flight Services Data Link strategy, building on the cockpit to ground communications capability we put in place for inflight Adverse Condition Alerting Service (ACAS) alerts and Surveillance-Enhanced Search and Rescue (SE-SAR). Every pilot knows the value of PIREPs. Our PIREP submission infrastructure lets you submit PIREPs without contacting Flight Service via radio, and Urgent PIREPs are immediately uplinked to other pilots registered for ACAS and flying in the same area. The first two vendors integrating with our PIREP submission infrastructure will be announced at AirVenture Oshkosh, with more coming right behind.
Speaking of ACAS and SE-SAR, Garmin and DeLorme have joined the group of industry partners that have integrated with those services. And, based on your feedback, we’ve improved the ACAS alert messages. The text and inflight satellite communications messages are easier to understand, and the email alerts now contain complete information about the adverse condition, including a graphic showing where it’s located along your route of flight.
NextGen Briefings just keep getting better. We’ve added color-coded time tags for intersections with adverse conditions, letting you know if a condition is active when passing (red), within an hour of being active (orange), or an hour or more from being active (green). We’ve also reorganized NOTAMs so that less frequently referenced NOTAMs (e.g., airports along the route of flight) are segregated into their own tab, and we’ve added filters to obstruction and Navaid NOTAMs to help you focus on the ones that are relevant to your flight. Plain text translation is now available for several more sections.
Wondering what’s changed since your last briefing? Our Delta Briefing capability has you covered. If you received a standard briefing for a flight (online or via specialist), all subsequent online briefings contain an automatically inserted new section under Adverse Conditions called “Delta”. It contains all new or modified adverse conditions since your last standard briefing.
Pilots can also email copies of their briefings to themselves and schedule a briefing to be generated and emailed at a specific time.
All pilot interactions with the web portal have always been recorded. Now pilots can view and print the last 15 days of their transaction history on the website (see History under the Flight Planning & Briefing menu selection).
To support flight planning, we’ve implemented our Altitude Optimization tool. It checks two levels above and below the flight plan altitude and provides time and fuel burn estimates based on forecast winds and aircraft performance characteristics. The NavLog function is also available.
You can get more details from the Announcements function in the web portal (automatically displays the first time you logon after a release, and always available under the Help menu selection).
Try it out and let us know what you think! In the meantime, we’re busy working on another batch of capabilities we’ll be deploying in the fall.
Pre-plan the route and such, and then in the morning just hit one button to brief and ta-da, it's all right there.
