At 14:30 UK time (09:30 ET, 06:30 PDT, 21:30 HKT) on Wednesday 23rd August there will be a small disruption to Fleets Analyzer while an upgrade is in progress.
Starting at around 14:30, both the Quick Profile Search (QPS) and Quick Filter Search (QFS) will be unavailable, over the following 1hr, both the QFS and QPS will start to populate with values, by the end of the hour, both should be fully populated. Continue reading “”
In July this year, we discovered a bug in the MSN column of the Fleets Analyzer export. The column was formatted as “number” and therefore any preceding zeros were being stripped away e.g. 00123 would become 123. A fix was put in place and included in the release on 27th July. Unfortunately, the fix was not satisfactory and caused further issues for our users e.g VLOOKUP no longer worked on cells that contained an MSN.
A new fix was developed where we forced the cell to have the format of “General”, this is identical to how the column is formatted in the existing exports from Ascend Fleets. It’s worth noting, however, that Excel will continue to show the “The number in this cell is formatted as text or preceded by an apostrophe” message against cells that Excel considers to contain a numeric value, and, selecting the cell, then clicking in the formula bar, and then selecting a cell (any cell) will result in Excel converting the text to a number, and stripping out any preceding zeros, this a feature of Excel.
The updated fix is due to go live this Wednesday (23rd August). I would personally like to apologise for any inconvenience this issue has caused to our users.
The Aircraft Class filter option that is available in Ascend Fleets has now been made available in Fleets Analyzer. In addition to adding the filter, this is also available as a grouping option. The Ascend Aircraft Class differs from the existing Fleets Analyzer Market Grouping in that Fleets Analyzer defines the classifications down to sub-series level, whereas Ascend is less granular (down to Type level). Although the Fleets Analyzer solution is superior, there are many uses still dependent upon the Ascend version. For that reason, this feature has been added to Fleets Analyzer. Continue reading “”
Features added during this release:
Aircraft base location is described in a separate article.
On the History tab of individual aircraft profiles, we’ve added the Minor Variant column to the grid, so that you can see any changes to the minor variant caused by individual events within an aircraft’s history.
Based on requests from customers, we are pleased to announce we have released individual aircraft base locations for our business aviation and helicopter data sets.
This new data point is based upon the airport or helipad where the individual aircraft is most frequently known to be operating. We have built and researched this data by speaking to operators and OEMs, using flight tracking software, and monitoring enthusiast sources. Continue reading “”
Exporting data is a key feature of any data tool, and this is true of Fleets Analyzer. When we designed the export feature we increased (compared to previous products) the limit on the number of exportable rows to 100,000 and placed no limit on the number of columns. We also made sure that the exported Excel file is an exact copy of the results grid, including the column order.
What we didn’t have access to when designing the export solution for Fleets Analyser was data on the export habits of users of our previous products (ACAS and ASO Fleets). It’s clear now that we underestimated the frequency with which Fleets Analyzer users export data, and also the size of those exports. Continue reading “”
We recently (March 2017) solicited feedback from users regarding the possibility of including a “Run search” button. At the moment, a search is initiated after each filter has been added via the Quick Filter Select (QFS).
There are two reasons why we were considering making this change:
The mock-up below shows how this could look if implemented. In the mock-up the selected filters are no longer in sync with the results (as a new filter has been added since the search was last run), so the results are “disabled”, and a “Run search” button has been added.
The age of an aircraft in Fleets Analyzer is defined as follows:
Features added and bugs squished in this release:
On the Aircraft Events search page, we have introduced two new optional columns:
These are in addition to the Current Registration (at today’s date) column. The two new columns are best used in conjunction with events that are likely to result in a change to the aircraft registration: e.g. purchased, leased-in, etc.
