Flight Operations and Engineering Documentation Managing and Distribution Supported by Intelligent Transport Systems
Sikora, I., Pavlin, S. & Bazijanac, E. (2000). Flight Operations and Engineering Documentation Managing and Distribution Supported by Intelligent Transport Systems. Paper presented at the Transport, Traffic, and Logistics, 2 - 3 Oct 2000, Portorož, Slovenia.
Abstract
Aviation as a multitude of activities is meant to satisfy needs of its customers to overcome distance and time between any departure and arrival point in the world. Airlines and other aircraft operators (governments, armed forces, general aviation, and business aviation) differ in their structure depending on their size and services they provide. Some departments are to be found in larger airlines only. However, core departments, to every airline or aircraft operator, are flight operations department and engineering department. Sophistication and the size of these departments depend on the size of the system they are incorporated in. Business logistics of an airline consist of numerous distinctive activities and functions. These activities have to be planned and completed in synchronisation. The paper presents an overview to intelligent systems for the support to these activities with particular stress on flight operations and maintenance functions in a medium sized airline. Authors show how the approach to documentation management, as a part of logistics in the production of transportation service, has evolved since the early 1990s when aviation has started to recognise the value of digital technical data. In light of this, authors analyse conceptual framework adopted by today's aircraft manufacturers towards their logistics activities supported by Internet as a new means of transferring data. The advent of new sophisticated pilot-machine interfaces and aircraft systems tends to increase the volume of the documentation describing these tools drastically. The paper communicates how operational documentation has to change to move towards a more easy and modern media. Intelligent systems that prove aviation entering a period where the "written book" is going to be complemented if not largely supplemented by the "electronic book" are presented from the early beginnings of digital data application to the most recent achievements.
| Publication Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Departments: | School of Science & Technology > Engineering |
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