CASE STUDY: SMARTLYNX
IFS - PFB™
JeppFD-Pro Interface
Press button. Jeppesen auto load from PFB to Jeppesen (JeppFD-Pro) Preparing charts for departure, destination, alternate airport and plotting planned route flown.
FIGURE 6
Crew information and General Declaration The interface is used to feed flight deck crew information from RAIDO to PPS Flight Log, including
Pilot in Command (PIC), First Officer (FO) and Additional Crew Member (ACM). It‘s managed through the Ops system where crew planning is undertaken. The PFB™ EFB matches the flight with data from the Ops system to check if there is a match with crew information (the crew is already shown on the EFB). That is useful for the pilot because he’ll see the crew’s full names with their three letter codes. This connection led to another because, with a full name and a three letter code, a connection can be made to create a General Declaration (GenDec). The standard procedure is for the crewing department to create a GenDec and send it somewhere to be printed but once in a while, you end up in a place, especially in an operation like SmartLynx, where there is a GenDec missing. So SmartLynx had IFS build them a button for ‘GenDec’ which, when pushed, will AIRCRAFT IT Operations • MARCH-APRIL 2018 • 31
pre-populate the General Declaration form, connect to the Ops system, grab the data (name, date of birth, passport number…) from all crew members available in the crewing department and put that information on the GenDec form so that the pilot can send to wherever is convenient to have it printed; it’s a nice back-up procedure.
Load Sheet On all flights, the load sheet is prepared by the pilot; it’s not connected to DCS (Data Coding Scheme) systems in the airport because SmartLynx flies for so many customers that it’s never worth the effort to set the uplink to a DCS system. The pilot creates the load sheet on the EFB which is fully OFF-line capable and which takes 25-30 seconds. He signs it and the load sheet goes to a pre-defined list in the back-Office so, when they’re departing from one