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GenAv Flight Office

official training newsletter GenAv Systems Ltd.

  February 2005

  http://www.genavsystems.com/

 

   
In this issue:

 

 Window Dressing:  Our new Microsoft Windows XP look!

Our Australian Customers:  Airborne Aviation, Kestrel Aviation, Professional Helicopters, Aerospace Aviation   

GenAv Customer Logos with links

SAFECON NIFA University Competition: Salina, Kansas, USA

Now serving customers in four countries

                    

Window Dressing!  Our new Windows XP compliant interface with light-up buttons

Our new Microsoft Windows XP look with Windows XP three dimensional buttons that light up when you pass the cursor over them.

One more step in making GenAv Flight Office TRiM the best aviation management software available.

There are many new features to look forward to in 2005.  Some of them are:

Duty Roster Warning and Reporting

Country modifications for the UK, New Zealand and Australia

Real time or batch integration to your accounting system

New module for displaying or projecting your schedule on a white board or large screen / plasma monitor

Display photo of aircraft from Internet Booking Schedule.

Airborne Aviation
Hangar 53
PO Box 745
Camden, NSW 2570
Australia

[61] 2 4655 7200
contact: chris@airborne-aviation.com.au   www.airborne-aviation.com.au
Airborne Aviation is Australia's first Cessna Pilot Centre.



Camden has wonderful scenery!

The Camden airport is surrounded on three sides by the Nepean River, located within view of the Blue Mountains and picturesque Camden township. It sure beats flying over suburbia and industrial area!

Most weekends you will also see many gliders soaring in the skies to the south of the airfield, before returning for landing just in front of our main hangar.

 

 

 

Airborne Aviation will be utilizing all aspects of GenAv Flight Office to automate scheduling, offering their customers and students the convenience of internet booking.  The staff are looking forward to the reduced work load.

Accounting tasks will be reduced significantly through GenAv's integration to Airborne's accounting system.   Data will only have to be entered once.

 Tiger Moth Flights

Fly back to the 1940's in one of Airborne Aviation's vintage open cockpit bi-planes!

1940 de Havilland Tiger Moth

Let the wind blow through your hair.. sit back, relax and enjoy as you go back in time to an era of romance and nostalgia...

Most Tiger Moth bi-planes in Australia are privately owned so the chance of a flight in one is relatively rare. Luckily it's an opportunity Airborne Aviation can offer, we have two available!

DH82A Tiger Moth

Donning a leather flying helmet and goggles ready for a flight of pure nostalgia, whether experiencing the thrill of aerobatics or simply flying high above the bustle of modern life, it is easy to imagine it is 1940 again.

Kestrel Aviation College
Mangalore Airport
Mangalore, Victoria 3663
Australia

[61] 3 5796 2373
eleanor@kestrelaviation.com.au

http://www.kestrelaviation.com.au

  

 

Kestrel aviation is located about 100km north of Melbourne Australia in Mangaloor.  They will be using GenAv for their rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft.

Quality Helicopter and Aeroplane pilot training has been the main focus of Kestrel Aviation College for almost 20 years. Australia's reputation for first class aviation safety is upheld and encouraged, by the commitment to safety standards and excellence in pilot training found at Kestrel Aviation College

 

Single and Multi Engine fixed wing training is
conducted by Kestrel

 

Kestrel Aviation was established in 1985 by Ray Cronin the Managing Director and Chief Flying Instructor for the company. Motivated by the lack of dedicated helicopter flying schools in Australia, Ray identified a need for a specialist helicopter training school and Kestrel was established at Moorabbin Airport. Kestrel was named after the small hawk called the 'Kestrel' which is one of the few birds that can both hover and fly.

Kestrel soon outgrew Moorabbin Airport, and in line with its' key focus on training and achieving the best possible results for its' candidates, Kestrel carefully researched and selected Mangalore Airport in Central Victoria as its' new training base. The company moved all of its' facilities and staff to Mangalore Airport in 1989. This has led to further growth and development with the addition of an aeroplane flying school and a 26-bed accommodation complex being added in the early nineties.

Mangalore Airport has also enabled Kestrel to expand into one of the busiest helicopter schools in the southern hemisphere with 10 helicopters and 4 fixed wing aircraft, all owned and operated by Kestrel. In addition to private and commercial courses, Kestrel conduct other specialist courses of training including helicopter and aeroplane Night VFR training and Multi engine command Instrument Ratings. Advanced approvals such as low level endorsements, sling load operations and training in an extensive list of helicopter and aeroplane types can be accessed at the college.

 

Frasca 342 Helicopter Simulator- Confined Area Operations

Kestrel are one of the few schools to offer a command instrument rating course which combines training in a specially equipped Robinson R22 before switching over to the Agusta A109 for final training and the test. The latest addition to Kestrel's fleet is the multi-engine ten seater BK117 which is on firebombing contracts over summer and used for multi-engine training and charter during the year.

Kestrel Aviation is in the process of installing GenAv Flight Office TRiM, a computer based software package that will centralise and regulate the Kestrel Aviation operates.  The GenAv system will be used by instructors for flight scheduling, student record keeping and maintenance tracking.  The program allows staff to track student details to ensure currency of medical and license expirations and invoicing.

Students will be able to access Kestrel's Flight Schedule via the internet, giving them the ability to make flight bookings with preference to time, instructor and aircraft.

Former student Darren Sommers fire fighting

Professional Helicopter Services Professional Helicopter Services
Bundora Pde
Moorabbin Airport
Mentone, VIC 3194
Australia

[61] 3 - 9580 7433

http://www.phs.com.au/

 

 PROFESSIONAL HELICOPTER SERVICES was established in 1981 by Ron Newman as a part time training school with a Hughes 300 helicopter, in order to keep his instructing skills current. At this time Ron was the Chief Helicopter Pilot and Chief Engineer for the Victoria Police Air Wing after setting them up with a twin engine "Dauphin" helicopter. The training school grew quickly, mainly due to Ron's background in the helicopter industry and his excellent reputation.
Ron's background in Aviation began in 1955 when, at the age of 14, he became an apprentice Aircraft Engineer with Trans Australia Airlines (now QANTAS). He moved to Ansett Airlines "Helicopter Division" in 1960 and has been involved with helicopters ever since. He became a Licensed Helicopter Engineer and in 1966, took charge of their Sikorsky S61 (28 seat helicopter) operation in Queensland.

Ron learnt to fly helicopters in 1968 and since that time he has flown extensively throughout Australia, New Guinea, the Pacific Islands and the Antarctic with Helicopter Utilities and Jayrow helicopters before joining the Victoria Police in 1976 in order to set them up in a helicopter operation. In 1983 he left the Police Air Wing to concentrate on his growing company and now has over 15,000 helicopter flying hours, with over 7,000 hours of instructional experience in both single and twin engine helicopters.

Aerospace Aviation Pty Ltd.
Corner Marion & Birch Streets
Bankstown Airport
Bankstown, NSW 2200
Australia

[61] 2 9791 9991
suedavis@ozemail.com.au

http://www.aerospaceaviation.com/

Aerospace Aviation is GenĀv's official reseller for Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia

Based at Bankstown Airport in Sydney NSW, Aerospace Aviation is one of Australia’s leading pilot training establishments.   Aerospace Aviation is GenAv’s first account in Australia.

Their team of dedicated instructors has a wealth of airline, air force and charter flying experience, which you can use to plan both your training and your future in aviation.

Whether you want to fly for pleasure with a Private Pilot’s License, or open a lifetime of opportunities with a career in commercial aviation, we can guide you through an approved course of comprehensive practical and theory training. We'll help you achieve primacy in your pilot training at Aerospace Aviation.

Aerospace Aviation caters for students from all over the world, in modern and thoroughly professional facilities. But they also work hard to offer individual attention and a personal, friendly atmosphere.

GenAv's Flight Office TRiM system has replaced all the manual paper  scheduling and dispatch functions.

Aerospace Aviation soon be going online with GenAv Internet Booking for customers and students.

 

 

 

 

Some of our GenĀv Flight Office TRiM Customers (click on logo for link to site)

                                            

 

                                  

 

          

 

         

 

              

 

                  

 

          

SAFECON 2005
Look for our booth at:

April 26th to 27th 2005  Salina Kansas

The National Intercollegiate Flying Association has roots that embed deep into the United States aviation history. Prior to World War II, air meets were being held in the Ivy League circle under the National Intercollegiate Flying Club (NIFC). However when the nation went into the Great Depression, these air meets ceased to function. Following World War II, the aviation industry received an unprecedented amount of interest of people wanting to learn to fly. With this increased attention, the idea of bringing back a nationally recognized collegiate aviation organization came into view.

In 1948, Professor Troy Stimson of Texas Christian University (TCU) contacted the Civil Aeronautics Administration (the predecessor of the FAA) and numerous other collegiate schools with the sole purpose of revitalizing the collegiate flight competition. It was under these meeting that the National Intercollegiate Flying Association was born. Professor Stimson served as NIFA’s first executive director. The first air meet under the newly formed NIFA was held in May of 1949 at Texas Christian University.

Today NIFA is stronger then ever. There are over 70 collegiate schools that are involved each year. Each of these schools would have the opportunity of competing in their region’s Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference (SAFECON). There are eleven regions in the United States each configured geographically. From these eleven regional competitions, around thirty schools are invited to compete in the National SAFECON held in the spring of each academic year. It is at the National SAFECON that the National Champion Team is awarded the annual title, a much coveted prize among the competitors.