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CSeries taxonomy change to A220

In line with the recent news that the CSeries has been rebranded as the A220, we have updated our taxonomy.

The type is now called the A220 (CSeries) in Flight Fleets Analyzer. The CSeries name in brackets enables customers to continue using the old name in data searches if desired.

The subsequent subseries have changed accordingly:

  • CS100 becomes A220-100 (CS100)
  • CS300 becomes A220-300 (CS300)
  • CS100/300 becomes A220 (CS100/CS300)

These changes will be reflected in Flight Fleets Analyzer from tomorrow (Thursday 12 July).

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Changes to Aircraft Usage definitions

We made a change to the Aircraft Usage categories today, removing ‘Business / Corporate / Executive’ and rolling it into ‘Business – Private Company Use’.

‘Business – Private Company Use’ will now be used whenever the aircraft is operated by a private business or corporation but does not conduct direct revenue-generating services such as air taxi, air charter, or airline services.

‘Business – Air Taxi/Air Charter’ will continue to include aircraft operated by air taxi (Part  135) companies.

Any aircraft operated by private individuals will be included under ‘Private Use’.

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Release Notes v10.3

On Tuesday 10 July we will be releasing the following enhancements:

  • A means for users to report incorrect data on company and aircraft profiles
  • Removal of the LinkedIn column from the People tab in the Company section
  • Change to the default order of columns on the Summary tab of the Aircraft section
  • Increase in the Default number of rows in tables, from 20 to 100
  • Find-a-filter search box always has cursor focus when landing on a search section

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Change to ‘Unconfirmed Operators’

We have made a minor update to how we display an aircraft’s operator when we do not know the exact name.

From today, all these operators will change from being “Unconfirmed [country] Operator” to “Corporate [country] Operator”.

We have made this change based on customer feedback, and believe it better reflects the status of the aircraft operator.  Often we have confirmed the country where it is based but either do not know or cannot show the company that operates it.

Formerly, these companies appeared as shown below:

Figure 1: Previous naming convention (click to view full size)

From today they will appear as shown below:

Figure 2: New naming convention (click to view full size)
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Preparing for TLS 1.2

What is TLS?

TLS stands for “Transport Layer Security”, the protocol that allows digital devices (such as computers and phones) to communicate over the internet securely without the transmission being vulnerable to an outside audience.

What’s changing?

As of 14 May 2018, Flight Fleets Analyzer, Flight Dashboard, and Flight Ascend Values Analyzer will no longer support TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Continue reading “”

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FlightGlobal IE11 Technical Advisory

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is the last version of the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft. It was released in October 2013 and is being supported by Microsoft until the end of life of Windows 10.

When released in 2013, Internet Explorer was considered the fastest of contemporary web browsers. Now, it is the slowest by a significant margin. There are two main reasons for this: Continue reading “”

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Updated Field Picker

The ‘Field Picker’ (used when selecting columns, groups, metrics etc.) has been updated to ensure that the full name of fields is always visible, and no longer truncated. The old Field Picker is shown below in Figure 1, with the updated version shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1. The old Field Picker.
Figure 2. The new Field Picker.
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Participants filter

In November 2017, we introduced the Participants field to Flight Fleets Analyzer as an optional column on the Aircraft Detail page, and in the header of aircraft profile pages.

Definition: Participant in a financial transaction, such as a loan, mortgage, tax lease, etc. The role of each participant could include (but is not limited to) arranger, debt provider, equity provider, guarantor, etc

To help find aircraft associated with specific Participants, we recently introduced the Participants filter. The Participant role differs slightly from the other nine company roles (Owner, Operator, etc) in that there can be multiple participants associated with an aircraft at any single point in time. Selecting multiple companies within the Participants filter will return aircraft if they are associated with any of the Participants: for example, Participant 1 OR Participant 2. This is shown in the example in Figure 1. Continue reading “”