Posted on by Mark Evans

Release Notes v8.15

Features added and bugs fixed in this release:

  • Aircraft family
  • Operator Groups
  • Serial Number data in export incorrectly formatted

Aircraft Family

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.

Figure 1. The Aircraft Family option in the Aircraft Type filter group (click to view full-size).
Figure 2. The Aircraft Family (and Type) used as a grouping option on the Aircraft Summary page (click to view full-size).

Operator Groups

The Operator Group filter and fields have been available in Fleets Analyzer since launch, but the field has not been well populated, in this release we have addressed this issue. Filtering by Operator Group in the Aircraft section will return all aircraft operated by Operators that are part of the group. Note, this is true for current and future operator/operator group relationships, but has not been updated historically.

Figure 3. In service aircraft with IAG as the Operator Group prior to the change (click to view full-size).
Figure 4. In service aircraft with IAG as the Operator Group after the change (click to view full-size).

Serial number in export incorrectly formatted

We had a bug in the exported Excel data where the Serial Number column was being incorrectly formatted by Excel as a number, this was corrected in a previous release, but the fix caused further issues. In this release, the formatting of the column has been set to “general” to match the export format used in Ascend Fleets. For a more detailed explanation of this issue please read the MSN formatting in Excel article.