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Aviation Training and Operations Management AVIATION TRAINING AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CASE STUDIES “THE FLEXIBILITY PROVIDED BY FLIGHTPRO® HAS ALLOWED US TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE EFFICIENCIES” CANADA – NFTC The NATO Flying Training Center in Canada (NFTC), split across the wide release version while still supporting their unique operating two geographic locations of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and Cold needs. Lake Alberta, is responsible for Phase II, III and IV pilot training and supporting over 7 NATO member countries. Being a leading demonstrator of Military and Commercial partnering, the need for NFTC to capture accurate mission outcome information While NFTC’s operating requirements differed from those of was paramount to the success of their operation. FlightPRO® other clients, the flexibility of FlightPRO® allowed NFTC to provided the single point of data entry for electronic authorisation move seamlessly from manual to electronic processes. By and mission hours capture, necessary to monitor both operations adoptingFlightPRO®, NFTC was able to benefit from the same world- billing performance and student progression. UNITED KINGDOM – RAF VALLEY RAF Valley is home to No. 4 Flying Training School, the only Advanced The school expects, through the use of FlightPRO® , the graduation Flying Training and Tactics Unit in the UK responsible for training all RAF of additional trained pilots each year, providing a significant return on and RN fast jet pilots for the front line. investment. No. 4 Flying Training School trains its own Qualified Flying Instructors, • The full installation only took 3 months Qualified Tactics Instructors and Qualified Weapons Instructors, as well as providing training for Foreign and Commonwealth pilots. • Valley has recently recorded a record sortie level of 146 sorties in a single day, which would not have been possible without FlightPRO® Following an extensive global evaluation process, FlightPRO® was chosen to manage Operations. RAF Valley has benefited significantly through • FlightPRO® has allowed the integration of Simulators into the efficiency gains provided by FlightPRO® , by keeping 208 and 19 Squadrons, planning and scheduling which has eliminated double booking, the outsourced BAE Simulator operations and the rest of the Base provided better utilisation of the Simulators and improved personnel up to date in real time with changes as they occur. communications with BAE the simulator provider. “A system which is now absolutely fundamental to the way we do our business” - Simon Stoker, Flight Commander RAF DARWIN TOWNSVILLE TINDAL AMBERLY DELAMERE OAKEY WOOMERA ® WILLIAMTOWN FLIGHTPRO IS IN USE ACROSS 14 NOWRA RICHMOND PEARCE JOC ADF FACILITIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA EDINBURGH SALE AUSTRALIA – ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE Ocean flagship customer, the Royal Australian Air Force, has had The scope and complexity is impressive, FlightPRO® links 14 bases FlightPRO® in constant use since 1994. Growing from its initial across the ADF and encompasses all fixed and rotary wing military installation at RAAF Base Pearce to manage PC-9 pilot training, flying in Australia by the Air Force, Army and Navy. FlightPRO® is now the indispensable military aviation management tool of choice to the ADF. A high degree of integration with other systems has been established ensuring operational consistency and efficient use of people, assets Under the project name ULTRA (Unit Level Tool for Resource and tasking. Allocation) FlightPRO® is a major component of the Air Command Support System and delivers operational and training oversight to FlightPRO® unique ability to support “any platform, any mission”, almost all military flying in Australia. In addition, multiple contractor- has come to deliver true enterprise management and has produced led flying and maintenance technician schools use FlightPRO® under impressive metrics to ensure good return on investment to the ADF. contracts with Tier 1 OEM’s such as Boeing and BAE Systems. BELGIUM – BELGIAN AIR COMPONENT The Belgian Air Component is considered one of the most active Air reported to the required level of detail. FlightPRO® has truly enabled Forces in the world with a pivotal role in NATO. Active at home and us to professionally build up our operation in all aspects, reinforcing abroad, the Belgian Air Component participates in a broad range of a fully compliant culture and establishing proper authorization and operations, together with its coalition partners. supervision. During the COVID pandemic, FlightPRO® actually enabled a complete decentralisation of operations by providing a common live Following a competitive, international tender process, FlightPRO® was picture to all actors, regardless of location.” selected as the best of breed system to support all military flying operations and training across the Belgian Air Component. “FUTURE CHALLENGES SUCH AS ‘ DO MORE WITH LESS’ Since the introduction of FlightPRO®, complex operational tasks have AND INCREASINGLY COMPLEX WEAPON SYSTEMS, been automated and multiple legacy operational tools retired allowing full interoperability. FlightPro® has greatly improved operational INCLUDING THE A400M, NH90 AND FUTURE FIGHTERS, efficiency which was previously hindered by manual processes and a WILL REQUIRE EVER MORE EFFICIENT TOOLS SUCH AS lack of system interoperability. FLIGHTPRO® IN ORDER FOR THE WEAPON SYSTEMS TO BE EMPLOYED EFFECTIVELY”. The Belgian Air Component is now using FlightPRO® to manage all aspects of their military flying operations and training. MAJOR STEVEN VAN DER VORST BELGIAN AIR COMPONENT PROJECT OFFICER FightPRO® is used by all BELDEF flying units, on all asset types and many non-flying units (such as Air Traffic and Air Defence). It is playing a pivotal role in the operations, skill acquisition, training and tracking of all crews and a large part of the support staff for the BELDEF Air Transport fleet. “FlightPRO® excels at capturing all relevant data in our high-frequency training cycle. It allows all training activity, including classroom events, Full Flight Simulator sessions, and self-study pre-reading assignments to all air sorties to be planned, changed, executed, and FLIGHTPRO® MANAGES THE COMPLETE MILITARY AVIATION OPERATIONS AND TRAINING CYCLE TASKING & SCHEDULING CURRENCY & QUALIFICATION MANAGEMENT CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Manage assets, people, events and Integrate currency and qualification data Warnings, alerts & decision support tools resources in real-time with easy to directly into the planning process. prevent potential issues. Outlook integration use, intuitive interfaces. Record qualifications against all gives full oversight of availability. training tasks. FLEXIBLE PIPELINE REPORTING & COST CENTRE MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Student driven, asynchronous Manage & report against planned and Data and business process to support safety training & course management. completed activities, including the and quality management, operational risk measurement of cost and KPIs. management, legal and financial compliance. TRAINING MANAGEMENT STREAMLINED ADMINISTRATION COMPREHENSIVE REPORTING Syllabus creation, course design & Achieve a paperless, fully electronic training Data analytics, trend analysis and reports management and outcome capture. service, where role-based access is granted are available in real time, while 3rd party Integration with 3rd party LMS/LCMS tools. accordingly to staff, students and instructors. plug-ins can be used to support further reporting requirements. FLIGHTPRO® COMPLIMENTS YOUR EXISTING PROGRAM AND SYSTEMS WHY OEMS AND PRIMES FLIGHTPRO® INTEGRATES CHOOSE FLIGHTPRO® TO IMPROVE OPERATIONS TRAINING MANAGEMENT Primes and OEMs around the globe choose Cloud-first technologies like APIs, enable CURRENCIES FlightPRO® FlightPRO® as their preferred COTS training greater possibilities. & QUALS SCHEDULING management system. Customers benefit from the flexibility - • Ocean develops and maintains the achieving better productivity, efficiency, software and provides service and and cost control and vendors can leverage TAMS® support, increasing speed to market. their partnerships and focus on delivering what they do best. YOUR MAINTENANCE DECONFLICTION OPS • Partners benefit immediately from over CoreSYSTEMS SB modules 20 years of research and development With the flight schedule at the centre of and can trust in a robust, secure system. your operations, FlightPRO® is well placed ® to integrate with and compliment other SmartBase • Partners can actively take part in enterprise systems, from human resources FlightPRO®’s development via our to maintenance. Innovation Partner Program, whilst freeing NON ROSTERING OCEAN up their own R&D resources. In addition to our deep API integrations, SYSTEMS SmartBase® and TAMS® are part of Ocean’s We partner with the best-in-class aircraft, ecosystem of products designed to support LONG RANGE UAV and simulator manufacturers your flight training operations. PLANNING to deliver the best-in-class training management system, providing superior outcomes for customers. TRUSTED BY MILITARY AND AVIATION PARTNERS ACROSS THE GLOBE ABOUT OCEAN OCEAN SOFTWARE IS PRIVATELY OWNED, HEADQUARTERED IN AUSTRALIA AND COMMITTED TO FULFILLING THE NEEDS OF OUR GLOBAL CUSTOMER BASE NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE. WE CONTINUALLY STRIVE TO LEAD THE WAY IN DEPLOYED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF CRITICAL END-TO-END OPERATIONS AND 15 COUNTRIES TRAINING MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY. Our team is able to translate the business process Software Assurance Maturity Model for continuous needs of our customers into
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