The AirLoader family of software applications is a fundamental redesign and rethink on how cargo aircraft manifests are created and distributed. Compared to legacy and competitor software, AirLoader ensures it outperforms in the following key aspects:
Safety
The aviation industry, both civil and military, is striving to continue to improve flight safety. Legacy and current software options are not optimised with Load Masters in mind. AirLoader improves flight safety by:
- Improving the UI and presentation of data, thus ensuring human input errors are reduced.
- Developing and implementing specific organisation Load Master check lists throughout the freight planning and loading stages. Thus ensuring all freight is correctly secured and inventoried before flight.
- Ensuring any aircraft crew or captain can look at the AirLoader display, and immediately and easily understand their aircraft’s freight load. All Dangerous Cargo is easily identifiable, with clear visual indications and information
Increasing staff and organisational efficiency is a key benefit of AirLoader family of software. This is driven by:
- Reducing the combined staff hours it takes to accurately plan and load freight aircraft. Thus increasing personnel’s ability to adapt and handle new or unexpected freight load changes.
- Reducing the waste of resources. Whether it be fuel, by ensuring best fuel efficient freight loading, or relying on legacy hardcopy documentation and printing.
- Digitising outdated legacy processes and auto0mating repetitive manual processes.
Efficiency
Data
Ensuring organisations are best configured to handle, manipulate and exploit their data, in a secure means is vital in ensuring the air logistics chain is working at peak efficiency.
- Digitising legacy hard documents process which ensures electronic version control and signatures. Thus reducing the administration burden of storing freight plans, whilst ensuring staff have the most up to date data available.
- Enabling data analytics of past and current freight plans. This enables staff to safely and accurately plan and load, whilst providing a framework of assurance to all key stakeholders.
- Enabling data to be used in creating organisation specified AI algorithms and further reducing time consuming, manual tasks.
AirLoader Use Cases
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is currently exploring the use of AirLoader to overhaul its legacy system. The current system is based on Excel and relies on printed documentation to plan and load all RAF cargo and passenger aircraft. The savings in fuel, resources and staff is estimated at over £500 000 a year. AirLoader will incorporate the A400, C17 and Voyager aircraft.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is currently in the process of of replacing their C130Hs for new C130-30J models. The RNZAF has a tight deadline, in order to ensure C130J availability for the the Antarctica supply mission. Aerotechnology has proposed a phase software roll out in order to ensure the RNZAF is able to achieve mission success.