In this release we have made a few enhancements to help you find saved searches.
All of the tables within the Saved Search section (My searches, Shared with me, FlightGlobal/ACAS/Ascend, and My Exports) can now be filtered via the table headers. Combined with the new search on the homepage, this should make finding saved searches far easier.
We have updated our taxonomy slightly for the Bombardier DHC-8, to enable more flexible searching and allow customers to filter out the type’s Q-Series variants (later-produced versions with a cabin noise suppression system).
For the DHC-8-400, we have renamed the master series from DHC-8-400 to DHC-8-400 (Q400); i.e. it now includes the marketing name. “(Q400)” has also been added for all relevant type series and subseries aircraft.
For the smaller Q200 and Q300, we have added the description in the type series and, in brackets, to the following subseries:
In October, users of Google Chrome will start to see a warning in their browser on any web page that includes a form field – e.g. search, address, passwords, filters, usernames etc – that is not transmitted using HTTPS (because the data is being transmitted over the web without encryption).
Flight Fleets Analyzer has always used encryption for the transmission of username and password on the sign-in page. As of 14 September, the whole of Flight Fleets Analyzer now operates over HTTPS – i.e. all submitted data is now encrypted. When using Flight Fleets Analyzer you should not see any Google warnings stating that the page is “not secure”.
This change should not affect your access to Flight Fleets Analyzer. However, if you previously had to ask your IT/security department to create a firewall exception for access to the sign-in page of Flight Fleets Analyzer (login.flightglobal.com) , you may now need to ask for this to be extended to the whole of flightglobal.com (*.flightglobal.com).
In this release, we have added three new trend metrics, all related to order accounting.
This is a sneak peek at an upcoming feature, due to be released later this month (September).
On the homepage, you can currently search for and launch an aircraft profile or a company profile. But if you want to launch a saved search, you have to navigate to the Saved Search page. In the next release (assuming testing is successful), we’re adding a third search box on the homepage. This will search all saved searches (yours, those shared with you, and those created by FlightGlobal). The results dropdown will show the owner of the saved search, as well as the relevant section. Continue reading “”
In this release, we have added another level to the aircraft hierarchy, i.e. Aircraft Family. This sits between Manufacturer and Type. You will find Aircraft Family wherever the aircraft hierarchy is available e.g. columns, filters, groups etc. Continue reading “”
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.
Following feedback from customers, we have added two new events for aircraft registered to ferry companies. This enables us to clearly show what is happening with the aircraft rather than represent them as purchases etc. – typically this is around aircraft with Textron – Beech / Cessna heritage.
The new events are:
This is used to transfer the ownership to the ferry company as per the register/FAA documentation – often these aircraft are just transferred to Rangeflyers etc …….for admin/paperwork exercises for the ferry part of the transaction.
This event is applied once the aircraft is in country and typically cancels to the destination country. It could also just be a change of ownership on the same register from the ferry company to the customer.
Both these events can be seen in this history table of aircraft PK-BVS, and is shown in Figure 1 below.
Due to changes in official designations, the following adjustments have been made to the naming convention for the A320 family of neo aircraft.
