| Air Maestro® Newsletter June 2009 |
Welcome to the June 09 quarterly newsletter from Avinet - Australia's premier aviation software company. Our aim is to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments to the Air Maestro® system and give you special insight into the company that is revolutionising Safety, Efficiency and Compliance based aviation software.
We are pleased to announce that we have had strong growth and doubled our customer base over the past 6 months.
| We have also commenced our international expansion and have our first customer using Air Maestro® in New Zealand. Our customer growth has been in both rotary and fixed wing operators. |
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Due to the superior features of Air Maestro®, including the easy-to-use interface, rich functionality and integrated modules, operators are seeing the benefits of centralising information, reducing duplicate entry and increasing control over their personnel and business, thus resulting in improved safety management practices.
With our ability to provide remote (over the Internet) demonstrations and quickly establish functional trial sites, interested operators are able to get a feel for Air Maestro® and fully explore its features and functionality with no obligation to purchase.
Over the next few months, we will be expanding our support capabilities and also our marketing activities both in Australia and internationally. We have detailed in the following sections information on our upcoming release 2.2, new modules under development, event and marketing activities and information on some of our key partners.
Should you be interested in speaking with our team about Air Maestro®, please don’t hesitate to contact us or review our website. |
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• InterDynamics have released FAID® v2.0 which aims to provide more visibility of fatigue levels over the duration of a shift.
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Air Maestro® now supports FAID® v2.0 and when enabled, it shows new features particular to FAID® v2.0. Due to the increased visibility of the FAID® score within an hour, you can now set Work Practice Limitations to look at the time spent in the FAID® conditions rather than the peak FAID® score.
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For instance, you can specify that in a 28 day period personnel must spend 95% of the time in the green FAID® condition. Additionally, you are now able to see a graph of each person’s FAID® score over a day or week, showing the time spent in each band.
• The Air Maestro® Safety Module has been enhanced with the inclusion of a Risk Register. Identified risks in your operation can be reported, tracked and searched. There is also the facility to add controls and mitigating actions for each risk, as it is investigated or reviewed.
• As a result of requests from several customers, a new Recency Check Form feature has been incorporated into the Recency Module. Recency Managers can create custom checklists to track individual items that need to be demonstrated during a particular check (e.g. night check, instrument flight etc). During the check, a print-friendly version of the form can be printed out and comments can be noted and then uploaded into Air Maestro®. The Recency Manager can then update which recency items have been achieved during the check and this is automatically reflected in the personnel recency screen.
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Flight Records
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The Flight Records module has been extended to include custom fields, enabling your organisation to setup the required fields for customer, billing and aircraft tracking.
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Fields contained in the Flight Records module have also been enabled in the Reporting area to allow for custom reports. The Flight Records and Timesheet modules are now seamlessly integrated, where changes to flights in either section will be reflected in the other.
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Air Maestro® will be advertised over the next few months in the Flight Safety, Helinews Asia-Pacific and Australian Aviation magazines.
Avinet will also be present as a trade exhibitor at several local and international events. If you are attending these events, please visit us at our stand. For more information on each event, please follow the links for the event.
The Aviation Industry Conference Week combines the AIA and NZAAA conferences in a weeklong series of events. This year will be the first time Avinet is exhibiting at this annual event. With our first New Zealand customer on board, this event will provide a good opportunity to launch Air Maestro® to other potential customers in New Zealand.
Helitech is Europe’s largest dedicated helicopter exhibition. Avinet will attend this event as a first time exhibitor, introducing Air Maestro® to the European market.
Safeskies is a biennial conference designed to facilitate sharing of information and views relating to aviation safety among hundreds of Australian and international attendees and speakers. After a successful event in 2007, Avinet will once again exhibit at this event in 2009. We look forward to demonstrating our enhanced Safety and Audit modules to interested parties at this event.
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| Integrated Safety Support provides specialist consulting services aimed at improving safety and business understanding through the effective management of fatigue-related risks. |
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Integrated Safety Support can help you create a Fatigue Risk Management System appropriate to your operation, review such systems and advise you on best rostering practices in 24/7 and extended hours environments and where shift work is required.
Air Maestro® is supported by FAID® fatigue assessment software, a product developed by InterDynamics Pty. Ltd. FAID® is model that can be used to estimate work-related fatigue based on hours of work and is based on research developed and validated by Dr Adam Fletcher and Professor Drew Dawson at the Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia.
InterDynamics has also developed FaidSafe® a comprehensive (10 element) risk-based integrated fatigue management solution that is offered as a global benchmark in the fatigue-risk management market and is consistent in its application with AS/NZ 4360 Risk Management Standard.
| Comunet is a specialist IT systems integrator that provides technical and strategic IT consulting as well as helpdesk and software development services. |  |
Comunet’s relationships with aviation organisations such as The Royal Flying Doctor Service, TAE Aviation and Rossair have allowed us to better understand the intricacies and demands of aviation business operations. This understanding translates to the development, deployment and maintenance of robust, scalable and cost-effective solutions.
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