1 Introduction
NFP Database Tab
This topic provides an overview of the NFP Database tab on the Maintenance screen. It also describes what is covered in this course.
We estimate that this will take 3 minutes to complete.
2 Detailed Explanation
NFP Database Tab
The NFP Database
tab provides you access to the WebFOMS menus. The screen has 5
groups: Aircraft, Airport, Notifications, Administration, and
Communication. This topic shows you how to access the N-FP
Database tab and how to access a WebFOMS screen from the tab.
Other topics will cover the fields and functionality of each
screen.
Flight Operations Management System (FOMS)
The Flight
Operations Management System (FOMS) is NAVBLUE’s proprietary
flight operations management software. It is a complex system
comprised of many programs working together. These programs
include background applications (flight planning, in-flight
revision, fuel/payload analysis, etc.), reports (company/station
NOTAMs, weather briefs, flight status reports, etc), and large
data files storing data (for aircraft characteristics, airports,
routes, performance profiles, ETP policies/scenarios, etc). For
NAVBLUE Flight Plan users, FOMS operates transparently behind
NAVBLUE Flight Plan, with the exception being instances where
data fields are automatically populated by FOMS while flight
planning.
Program Number Sequence
NAVBLUE FOMS is not
just a single program. It is a complex system made up of more
than 150 programs. Some of these are background programs, which
you will rarely be aware of, other than that they "make things
happen." Others are file managers, which enable you to maintain
the dozens of data files, that are necessary to make it possible
to complete flight plans etc. FOMS is not just a flight planning
program it also integrates weather, NOTAMs, and messaging
facilities that permit you to do your work from a single
terminal.
At the end of
the day, the system can generate a variety of reports to
facilitate management control over this most critical area of
company operations: flight operations.
Messaging
facilities are also available, which permit the user to transmit
to local or remote locations through the system network, SITA,
ARINC, AFTN, or FAX.
The Final
Flight Plan writes information back to the Flight Status file,
so that an accurate record of the flight’s statistics may be
maintained. As the flight is completed, closing data can be
entered, enabling reports on flying time, block time, planned
and actual fuel burns, fuel uplift, delays, planned and actual
payloads etc. to be created.
A variety of
other utility programs are also available to enable dispatchers
to solve the sorts of problems they frequently encounter.
Click
the Maintenance menu
item.
Click
the Aircraft Characteristics hyperlink.
You can access any WebFOMS screen from this screen.
The title of each screen is in the top banner.