Acrobat Flight Operations
The Acrobat Flight Ops System is based around a single graphical tool giving access to flight, maintenance, aircraft and station information. In addition, the use of our own screen, report and menu generators enables us to interface exactly to the user's needs.

Display
A major part of the system is a graphical display of the flying programme and maintenance periods showing both scheduled and actual times. The display can be orientated horizontally or vertically and scaled to suit. The amount of information displayed on each sector is dependant on the scale selected. Extra information is provided when the cursor hovers over sectors or aircraft. Visual indicators highlight aircraft with operational defects, station discontinuities and flights with positioning crew. Visibility is excellent with up to 20 aircraft visible on a single 21-inch monitor in horizontal mode and 30+ aircraft displayed on two adjacent 21-inch monitors in a vertical arrangement. Up to 32 weeks of flying can be fetched and viewed in the scrolling display.

Editing
There are powerful and intuitive editing features for flights and maintenance. Flights can be allocated to a different aircraft and the order aircraft rearranged by 'drag and drop'. All details about a flight can be easily retrieved and amended. All editing operations can be removed and reapplied (undo/redo). You can choose to view and edit in any time zone at run-time.

All sector changes are checked for clashes with other sectors or maintenance. If the turnaround time for the aircraft is violated the user is presented with a list of sectors that must be shunted in order to maintain a minimum separation.

Station and aircraft information
The system provides conveniently accessible information about the physical characteristics of aircraft and contact information for stations.  The aircraft information includes details of the airframe, engines, fuel, instrumentation, weights and faults. Station contact information includes details of handling agents, fuel suppliers and engineering support.

SITA messages
Aircraft movement data is automatically updated from SITA messages. This can include times (actual/estimated), passenger figures, freight, fuel and delay information (codes and times). ATC messages (slot, flight plan acknowledgement) also update the database.

Passengers
Forecast passenger numbers can be imported from reservations. The passenger numbers can be broken down by males, females, children and infants with number of bags and bag weight. Sectors with this passenger breakdown can exported to flight planning.

Sector notes
A list of text notes can be added to every sector. Notes can be flagged as important causing the sector to highlighted on the graphical display. A checklist can be preset on every sector for standard notes. The user, date and time is recorded with every change.

'What if' scenarios
The system can store alternative scenarios which can be designed to address existing or potential problems. A scenario can be displayed and checked for accuracy and legality and used to update the database if desired.

Reports
A variety of reports aid in the recording and analysis of aircraft movements and maintenance. These include reports on flights, punctuality, delay statistics, fuel, load factors and unavailability.

A powerful addition to the Acrobat Flight Ops system is the ability to view the graphical display from a web browser. Our demo runs in either horizontal or vertical orientation on a web browser using the Sun Java Plug-in.

Crewing
The Acrobat Flight Ops system is completely integrated with our Acrobat Crew Management and Acrobat Crew Records systems, sharing the same database of flight and crew data. Crewing considerations/consequences of aircraft delays or changes are rapidly displayed via a separate read-only version of the display.

Planning
The visibility of aircraft registrations can be toggled in a separate planning version. This allows the standard display to concentrate on the aircraft currently in operation, hiding those that are being leased or undergoing maintenance.