Conklin & de Decker issues life cycle cost software update Aviation research, consulting and education specialist Conklin & de Decker has released the latest of its Life Cycle Cost 2011 software tools. Life Cycle Cost provides owners, operators, flight department managers and aircraft consultants with extensive ownership and operating cost data for more than 380 jets, turboprops, helicopters and piston aircraft. The software is part of a family of aircraft operating and acquisition products developed by the Orleans, Mass.-based firm and it puts all cost aspects of owning and
operating an aircraft into a single program. New features to enhance and make the budgeting process more complete include: 100 percent bonus depreciation tax calculation; updated fuel surcharges that make charter projections more accurate; 12 additional aircraft added to the database; and updated fuel and maintenance costs, as well as aircraft acquisition prices. Other features include the ability to edit maintenance costs or add data, show managed aircraft with or without supplemental charter, name your own “other” cost-per-hour and
“other” cost-per-year categories. Prices for the Life Cycle Cost software (delivered in the U.S. and Canada) are $695 for the jets database, $550 for turboprops or helicopters and $450 for the piston database. Users can specify from one to five aircraft and pay for
only those aircraft that they need. Pricing is $225 for the first aircraft with a 20-percent discount when ordering more than one aircraft. Conklin & de Decker is demonstrating its newest Life Cycle Cost program here at its booth (No. 920). –K.J.H.
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Dart deals R44 luggage pod Dart Helicopter Services (Booth No. 4628) of Oceanside, Calif., has completed an exclusive agreement with Aviatech Technical Service for global distribution of Aviatech’s Ample Pod Luggage Carrier for the Robinson R44 Raven and Raven II. Aviatech (Booth No. 4340), based in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec (Canada), designed the luggage pod to carry up to 150 pounds in a 15-cu-ft volume, and the wide door provides easy access for large items like golf bags. The pod weighs 35 pounds and is available in white or, for additional cost, in colors to match other R44 finishes. The pod is certified in Canada, with pending STCs for the U.S. and Era Sees Big Savings with AviIT’s e-tech pubs Era Helicopters will be implementing AviIT’s eMan Solution (Booth No. 2662), an Internet-based, centralized technical publications management and delivery system, at all of its bases. The company’s v-p of maintenance, Stewart Stavley, said the system should reduce the number of paper subscriptions and the manpower required to update and distribute the paper documentation. “We operate about 180 aircraft at probably 35 different locations and we’re spending $202,000 on maintenance publications annually. The eMan Solution [should] reduce our annual cost to about $114,000,” Stavley told AIN. He did say there are some other costs, such as the requirement for a few additional computers and printers. Before implementing the eMan system for grounded helicopters Era had to fax all the applicable maintenance documents to mechanics at the AOG ship’s location. “Now [employees] can get it on the Internet,” he said. “It also serves as an audit and compliance tool in that we can monitor if the techs are using the manuals n to do the work.”
Europe. It can be configured for the right or left side, or two carriers can be installed, one adjacent to each skid. Initial installation, according to Dart, requires just two hours; thereafter pods can be removed and reattached in minutes. –K.J.H.
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