RunwaySense supports airports during monsoon
Every year ahead of the monsoon in the South-South East Asia region, several airports prepare their runways for the heavy rains they experience from June onward. The monsoon season is a great challenge for airports especially for the ones where domestic traffic is picking back up post Covid-19. The weather conditions during the monsoon season […]
NAVBLUE supports operators to adopt and implement the latest EASA regulatory changes
EASA announced regulatory changes in March 2022, giving operators the option to carry less fuel with the main changes impacting the contingency fuel. The new rules will bring in three different fuel schemes: Basic fuel scheme, Fuel scheme with variations, and Individual fuel scheme To be approved for the new schemes, the operator needs to […]
The Airbus technical Magazine FAST features NAVBLUE’s Mission+!
The article includes an interview with Captain @Olivier Aspe, Airbus instructor pilot. Check it out here!
Pilot braking reports and runway condition assessment (trial invitation)
RunwaySense is a collaborative web-based platform where airspace users share runway condition reports in real-time to enhance the runway condition awareness, and to allow the airport to anticipate and mitigate slippery conditions. RunwaySense uses unique data from A320 and A330 family aircraft provided by the Braking Action Computation Function “BACF” to accurately report the condition […]
What are Tail-Centric performance databases and why is it important?
Let’s start by a definition, the aircraft performance is the combination of its engines and airframe capacities and characterizes what the aircraft is capable of flying in terms of routes and associated payloads. To represent this aircraft performance, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) create a digital twin of the aircraft embedded in a database. These databases […]
Aircraft Weight
The take-off weight of any commercial aircraft (equipped to fly a given route) will consist of the aircraft empty weight, the operator’s items, payload (passengers, baggage, and any cargo) and the fuel load (including reserves). The aircraft empty weight (or Manufacturer’s Weight Empty (MWE)*) may be considered as the weight of the aircraft as it […]
Pilot discretionary fuel… justified extra fuel or unjustified extra cost?
Most regulations will state that the “commander” has the final authority on the fuel load for a flight. For commercial air transport operations, the “commander” means the “pilot in command”. In countries, where there are licensed dispatchers, (for example, in the United States) this final fuel load decision is shared between the commander and dispatcher. […]
What’s more to say about Aircraft Performance Monitoring?
As every complex machine, the performance of each aircraft varies through time. Physics simply explains the deterioration of the airframe and engine depending on how the aircraft has been operated. A lot of different factors such as the number of take-offs, number of flight cycles, operating conditions, thrust settings among others play a great role […]
Influencing Operational Costs in the Cockpit – The Cost Index
Like all businesses, airlines operate in a commercial world and anything that can be done to reduce costs may mean the difference between a profit or a loss at the end of a financial year. Flight crews can have an impact on operational costs, for example by using initiatives to reduce fuel burn and by […]
