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3. AIRPLAN Program Overview

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AIRPLAN© calculations can process more than 100 data variables in order to:

  • Define the No. of Aircraft, Crews, Sorties, Flight Hours, etc. required
  • Enable you to optimise Mission packages around available assets
  • Define Slip Crew requirements
  • Take account of intensive and sustained flying rates
  • Calculate possible Attrition Losses
  • Identify Key Dates and Times
  • Calculate Fuel & other Logistics
  • Define Simulator/Trainer needs
    (please scroll down the page)

Air assets data to be entered by the AIRPLAN user broadly include:

  • Crew information such as the number of crews established and constraints on their availability or use.
  • Aircraft information including the number of aircraft established, constraints on their employment and certain performance data.

If you have already read to the bottom of the page in the opposite, left hand column, please select 4. Scenarios or scroll to the menu at the bottom of the page

The Mission package inputs include information such as:
  • Key details of up to 200 missions, stored in a database
  • Whether aircraft fly alone or in formations
  • Certain key dates and times
  • Whether patrols are continuous
  • Attrition assumptions
  • The overall duration of the operation

When you have read the left and right hand columns on this page please select: 4. Scenarios

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Acknowledgement:
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