Aircraft Performance Group has introduced iPreFlight Genesis Pro, a new solution that coordinates between aircraft dispatchers and flight crews, enabling optimised global flight planning with integrated enroute, take-off and landing performance. It says the iPreFlight Genesis Pro is the culmination of APG's record of over 20 years of providing runway performance for over 350 aircraft profiles and over 9,000 monitored airports combined with RocketRoute's global routing and filing capabilities and Seattle Avionics' global ChartData. APG, RocketRoute and Seattle Avionics all recently joined forces under the AFV Partners LLC umbrella.

It provides optimised and integrated tools for both dispatchers and flight crews. Dispatchers have access to a comprehensive and flexible web-based application for global routing, runway performance, weight and balance, and flight plan calculation and filing. Flight crews can use the iPad application to review and modify trip plans at any point during the mission, verify runway performance calculations, and check weight and balance parameters. Routes and flight plans are fully synchronised between the web and iPad applications, it says this enables seamless bi-directional collaboration between pilots and dispatchers, eliminating inefficient phone calls, significantly decreasing operational change reaction times and improving communication accuracy.

“Flight preparation boils down to one important question: What is the most safe, compliant, efficient and timely manner to get to my destination based on optimised routing, considering my aircraft's performance capabilities?” says Shawn Mechelke, president of the aviation group at AFV Partners. “APG's runway performance system is the industry leader in business aviation. Now, with global route optimisation and flight plan filing from RocketRoute and global charts from Seattle Avionics, iPreFlight Genesis Pro brings together the many data, calculations and performance considerations into a seamless interface that is powerful, easy to use, and integrated in both mobile and web applications and no matter where in the world a mission takes you.”

“iPreFlight Genesis Pro uniquely combines the assets and IP of all three companies within our aviation group to optimise the flight route based on multiple parameters such as type of aircraft, load factor, weather conditions and many more data points to deliver a high return on investment solution with a meaningful sustainability impact due to an optimised fuel burn profile for our customers,” says Tony Aquila, founder, chairman, and CEO of AFV Partners.

It says key benefits of the system include realtime responsiveness delivers a superior experience to clients; it simplifies dispatcher and crew workflow; it lowers training costs; it reduces unplanned downtime; and it lowers operating costs and total cost of ownership.

Key features of the system include bi-directional synchronisation between dispatchers and flight crews; integrated runway performance with flight planning; global routing and filing; weight and balance; global charts for in-flight and pre-flight use; supports web platforms and mobile devices; and application programming interfaces allow connection to customer applications.