EFB Tools In The Palms of Pilots' Hands
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release
Navtech Contacts:
Andrea Murray, 519-747-1170 or amurray@navtech.aero
Beth Dempsey, 248-349-7810 or beth@bethdempsey.com
International Flight Support Contact:
Ilya Katsnelson, CEO IFS, +45 22488982 or ilya@ifs.aero
NAVTECH PUTS EFB TOOLS IN THE PALMS OF PILOTS' HANDS
Navtech WiFly supports the breadth of flight operations on mobile devices
June 28, 2010 (TORONTO) -- Through a new expanded agreement with Copenhagen-based International Flight Support (IFS), Navtech, a leader in flight operations software and services, is launching WiFly, a unique 24/7 online flight support system that runs on almost any pocket computer or smart phone. Navtech WiFly expands on the companies' previous joint product The Wireless Aviator (TWA), now enabling pilots to perform critical performance planning, calculations, and reporting for the entire flight from their mobile device, improving convenience and reducing paperwork. Navtech WiFly became available earlier this month.
"We examined the pilot's need for accuracy and speed when creating performance calculations for a flight and identified key tasks that would improve efficiency and reduce costs if they were carried out via a mobile device," said Mike Hulley, Navtech CEO. "We turned to our partners at IFS for technological support and created the best-in-class handheld EFB Class 1 solution for performance calculations that our customers have been asking for."
Navtech WiFly is modular, enabling a custom fit for various operational platforms and aircraft types, ensuring that each flight is optimized. It captures the breadth of the flight, from pre-take-off tasks such as check-in, weight and balance, performance calculations and flight planning. While in flight, Navtech WiFly enables convenient access to solutions for monitoring the engine and fuel, flight reporting, technical logging and calculations for landing.
Once back on the ground, pilots can validate and send reports, debrief and check-out using simple, intuitive Navtech WiFly tools. For efficient tracking and data capture, Navtech WiFly's functions and computations are monitored and logged on a central server. The server also allows for quick, comprehensive updates to the software so that Navtech WiFly ensures that the airline is always ahead of the technology curve.
IFS's award-winning handheld software uses its own IP/HTTP solution, which is renowned for speed, efficiency and cost savings. With Navtech WiFly, customers with such mobile devices as iPhone, Palm Treo, Windows Mobile devices like iPaq from HP, Touch Pro from HTC,
Milestone from Motorola and Xperia X1 from Sony Ericsson and more can have an EFB Class 1 solution in the palm of their hands.
To learn more about Navtech WiFly visit www.navtech.aero.
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 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.
Headquartered just outside Toronto in Waterloo, Ontario -- Canada's technology center -- Navtech also has locations 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.
About International Flight Support
International Flight Support is focused only on electronic flight support and EFB systems running on a 24/7 online basis using the global wireless network facilities. High quality IT systems and a full service concept has ensured IFS a strong position in the European air transport market supporting thousands of daily flight operations for airline, business jet, and military operators. Today, most of the airlines and business aircraft types are covered by the system and new types can be implemented and customized within a few weeks of a request.
Together with Navtech, we are launching and supporting WiFly which supports flight operations with the most potential for financial benefit to the airline through reduced ground time and reduced fuel consumption.
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