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  • OEM name changes

    Based on customer feedback, we are making a series of OEM name changes to bring our data up-to-date with our policy of reflecting the current support OEM. These name changes will be implemented in Flight Fleets Analyzer from 12 September.

    Figure 1. Name changes due to take place on 12 September (click to view full size).

  • Bell Helicopter Textron to become Bell

    Based on recent meetings with the OEM, and to reflect the rebrand that was announced earlier this year, we are now updating the name of ‘Bell Helicopter Textron’ to be ‘Bell’ in our data. This change will be reflected in Fleets Analyzer from Monday 30 July.

    Location in taxonomy Current value New value
    Aircraft Manufacturer Bell Helicopter Textron Bell

  • Expiring Exports

    Starting from 1 September 2018, any exports older than 30 days will be removed from our servers and will no longer be available for download.

    Why are you making this change?

    The Export page (where your exports are available for download) was built because some large exports can take a few minutes to generate, so a page was required where these could be made available for download. No rule was put in place to remove these exports after the initial download, so over time we’ve accumulated a vast quantity of exports, some of which are very large in size. In order to reduce the burden on our infrastructure, we’ve taken the decision to remove any export that’s older than 30 days. This will start from 1 September.  On that date, any export generated prior to 2 August will be deleted from our servers and will no longer available for download.

    Do I need to do anything?

    If you’ve been creating exports and for some reason have not downloaded them, then you should go to your Exports page and download all the ones that you wish to keep. You should do this before 1 September.

  • 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).

  • 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’.

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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

  • New Master Series for A330-800neo and A330-900neo

    Based on customer feedback, we have added A330-800neo and A330-900neo as Master Series within the aircraft taxonomy.

    This will take effect from Saturday 28th April.

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