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Flight Operation Management Systems

• Ed Hardick
• Director of Marketing/
• Product Support

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Overview

• Training Management System (TMS) - Talons ETA
• Resource Maintenance Management System (RMS)
  Talons RMS
• Increasing Importance of Management Systems
• Key Features of a TMS
• Key Features of a RMS
• Trends in Training Management System Requirements

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What is a TMS?

• Software application to manage all elements of a
  students training and training program
  requirements
• Curriculum is central part of the system
• Set rules for executing the training curriculum
• Resource requirements
• Instructor/Student Currencies/Qualifications
• Allowable repeats
• Grading Standards
• Scheduling versus training management
• Integrate all training program elements

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Importance of a TMS

• Paper-based training management-
• Inefficient
• Error prone
• Record keeping is problematic and time consuming
• Minimal connection between scheduling and
  training
• Regulatory agencies requiring improvements in
  student training and documentation
• Flight schools require better tools and improved
  efficiency to be competitive and compliant

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Key TMS Features

• Curriculum Management
• Personnel Management
• Training Resource Management
• Scheduling
• Operations
• Training Records
• Management Tools
• Financial Tracking Capabilities
• Reporting

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Curriculum Manager
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Personnel Manager
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Resource Manager
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Scheduling
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Operations/Dispatch
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Training Records
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Management Tools
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Financial
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Reporting
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Maintenance Manger

• What is a Resource Maintenance Management System?
• Software application to manage all elements of
  Aircraft Maintenance Requirements
• Scheduled maintenance events, work orders and
  inventory management and control are central
  parts of the system
• Must be integrated with the Dispatch function in
  the training management system
• Down aircraft not available for operations
• Prevent using aircraft that have maintenance
  events that are due
• Automatically update aircraft maintenance times
  in real-time

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RMS Key Features

• Event Management and Tracking
• Discrepancy Management and Tracking
• Resource Management
• Electronic Work Orders
• Parts/Inventory Management
• Management Tools
• Reporting

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Maintenance Events
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Discrepancies
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Resource Manager
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Work Orders
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Inventory Manager
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Management Tools
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Reporting
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Management Trends

• Increased Pilot Requirement still Projected
  Through 2016
• Increasing Requirements for Automation
• Inexperienced Instructor Pilots
• Increases demand for better tools to ensure
  training program executed IAW syllabus and school
  requirements
• Increasing Flight School Competition
• Schools must become more efficient and student
  training more effective
• International Customers
• Want electronic record keeping and web access
• Regulatory Agencies Shifting to Electronic

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Summary

• Integrated Electronic Training and Maintenance
  Management Systems Offer Flight Training
  Operations
• Detailed oversight of student training
• Increased manager involvement
• Improved instructor performance
• Reduces risk of aircraft maintenance violations
• Reduces/eliminates paper in training and
  maintenance operations
• Provides tools to make operation more efficient
  which lowers costs
• Provides students with improved training
  management and more effective training which
  lowers costs to student