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Oct 4, 2011
Sky Commander solve Flight Operation Problems
Salzburg, Austria (PRWEB) 5 October 2011 – GENA Systems announces the new product release of Sky Commander “World’s 1st Mission-Critical Management System” (MCMS). The helicopter avionics system is the first to offer numerous technologies into one device. These technologies work in harmony to streamline the flight director-pilot-crew team work flow during 911 calls or urgent flights. Sky Commander was custom engineered for the tasks performed by mission-oriented companies to help avoid navigation “miss-cues” and communication problems during time-sensitive flight operations where every second counts.
Until now, helicopter operators had to purchase an array of helicopter avionic products to get the functionality necessary to execute specialized flight missions such as air ambulatory, search & rescue, police, or cargo transportation. Now mission-oriented aviation departments can get an all-in-one system that features popular navigation technologies such as: Flight Following, Moving Map with Jeppesen NavData, Real-time tracking, Obstacle Management and iridium 2-way satellite communication which enables reliable communication from any corner of the world.
Yet, what makes Sky Commander complimentary to the unique way mission-oriented companies work is features such as GENA Auto Flight Plan (AFP). This feature enables flight directors to increase helicopter “speed-to-target”. With one click of a keyboard mouse all flight details including; emergency mission details, target address, extreme weather conditions, and any other mission details, can now be automatically transmitted in-flight directly to the helicopter cockpit. As new information becomes available the control center can continually transmit updates in real-time.
Until now, pilots would receive mission details from the flight director or communication specialist and manually enter target addresses and other flight plan data into a moving map unit. This time-consuming manual-entry method often results in key-entry errors causing miscommunication leading to time delays. Pilots new to a regional area would arrive at a wrong location due to entering wrong coordinates. With GENA AFP this problem is eliminated because flight plans are keyed-in directly by the flight director or flight communications specialist and instantly transmitted to the pilot’s Sky Commander moving map interface. As a result, air crews can be fully prepared for an emergency upon arrival.
Chief Engineer & CEO of GENA Systems, Werner Gerold, who led the Sky Commander design team says his inspiration to focus on this critical mission-management niche grew because, “Worldwide we’re experiencing a drastic increase in natural disasters and the heroic mission-critical specialist that are involved in these type of specialized operations deserve a system made exclusively for the dynamic or hostile environments they must work in.”
Werner Gerold mentions the recent Tohoku earthquake that caused a tsunami disaster in Japan as a case in point. During the March 2011 natural disaster he heard horror stories where private agencies and government rescue helicopters could not save lives due to planning failures, miscommunication, and generally the inability to coordinate rescue operations expediently and effectively. And that’s because each disaster relief organization operated autonomously which resulted in duplicated rescue efforts and missed opportunities to save lives; problems experienced due to not having a central communications center with compatible technologies.
To solve this problem Werner Gerold engineered another Sky Commander feature called Consortium Management System (CMS). The first-of-kind feature allows for one flight director to quarterback the collaboration of multiple inter-organizational (ex: Red Cross, FEMA, CERT) relief efforts during natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami in March 2011. Now a flight director can manage a large-scale operation through the use of GENA C2 (command & control), which is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web-based aircraft management application. With one click of a mouse all flight details including; emergency mission details, target address, extreme weather conditions, heading, current airborne location and any other mission details can now be automatically transmitted to each helicopter.
CEO Werner Gerold engineered Sky Commander with mission-oriented companies and specialist in mind. He says, “One attribute I wanted to integrate was scalability. This allows operators to obtain the immediate benefits of our systems at a cost-effective pricing point, yet, allow operators to integrate more Sky Commander features as needed.” To upgrade to the full management system, Sky Commander, no additional hardware is necessary. This drastically reduces the cost and installation labor.
To see an virtual action-movie showcasing Sky Commander features and benefits visit http://www.skycommander.at
About GENA SYSTEMS
GENA SYSTEMS manufactures helicopter avionics for the exclusive use of mission-oriented operations. The company, headquartered near Salzburg Airport in Salzburg, Austria, was founded in 2006 by a team of mission-oriented flight engineers and avionics specialist. GENA SYSTEMS honors the chosen few it calls “Mission-Critical Specialist” by engineering a full mission planning & operations system through the new SKY COMMANDER avionics system, developed for flight mission-oriented helicopter operators. The company has satellite offices in San Francisco, USA, and can be reach at: http://www.gena.at. For English-language call Elizabeth Avelar (FAA Rated Pilot) USA at 209.312.0115. For German-language call +43 662 854 885 0
Until now, helicopter operators had to purchase an array of helicopter avionic products to get the functionality necessary to execute specialized flight missions such as air ambulatory, search & rescue, police, or cargo transportation. Now mission-oriented aviation departments can get an all-in-one system that features popular navigation technologies such as: Flight Following, Moving Map with Jeppesen NavData, Real-time tracking, Obstacle Management and iridium 2-way satellite communication which enables reliable communication from any corner of the world.
Yet, what makes Sky Commander complimentary to the unique way mission-oriented companies work is features such as GENA Auto Flight Plan (AFP). This feature enables flight directors to increase helicopter “speed-to-target”. With one click of a keyboard mouse all flight details including; emergency mission details, target address, extreme weather conditions, and any other mission details, can now be automatically transmitted in-flight directly to the helicopter cockpit. As new information becomes available the control center can continually transmit updates in real-time. Until now, pilots would receive mission details from the flight director or communication specialist and manually enter target addresses and other flight plan data into a moving map unit. This time-consuming manual-entry method often results in key-entry errors causing miscommunication leading to time delays. Pilots new to a regional area would arrive at a wrong location due to entering wrong coordinates. With GENA AFP this problem is eliminated because flight plans are keyed-in directly by the flight director or flight communications specialist and instantly transmitted to the pilot’s Sky Commander moving map interface. As a result, air crews can be fully prepared for an emergency upon arrival.
Chief Engineer & CEO of GENA Systems, Werner Gerold, who led the Sky Commander design team says his inspiration to focus on this critical mission-management niche grew because, “Worldwide we’re experiencing a drastic increase in natural disasters and the heroic mission-critical specialist that are involved in these type of specialized operations deserve a system made exclusively for the dynamic or hostile environments they must work in.”
Werner Gerold mentions the recent Tohoku earthquake that caused a tsunami disaster in Japan as a case in point. During the March 2011 natural disaster he heard horror stories where private agencies and government rescue helicopters could not save lives due to planning failures, miscommunication, and generally the inability to coordinate rescue operations expediently and effectively. And that’s because each disaster relief organization operated autonomously which resulted in duplicated rescue efforts and missed opportunities to save lives; problems experienced due to not having a central communications center with compatible technologies.
To solve this problem Werner Gerold engineered another Sky Commander feature called Consortium Management System (CMS). The first-of-kind feature allows for one flight director to quarterback the collaboration of multiple inter-organizational (ex: Red Cross, FEMA, CERT) relief efforts during natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami in March 2011. Now a flight director can manage a large-scale operation through the use of GENA C2 (command & control), which is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web-based aircraft management application. With one click of a mouse all flight details including; emergency mission details, target address, extreme weather conditions, heading, current airborne location and any other mission details can now be automatically transmitted to each helicopter.
CEO Werner Gerold engineered Sky Commander with mission-oriented companies and specialist in mind. He says, “One attribute I wanted to integrate was scalability. This allows operators to obtain the immediate benefits of our systems at a cost-effective pricing point, yet, allow operators to integrate more Sky Commander features as needed.” To upgrade to the full management system, Sky Commander, no additional hardware is necessary. This drastically reduces the cost and installation labor.
To see an virtual action-movie showcasing Sky Commander features and benefits visit http://www.skycommander.at
About GENA SYSTEMS
GENA SYSTEMS manufactures helicopter avionics for the exclusive use of mission-oriented operations. The company, headquartered near Salzburg Airport in Salzburg, Austria, was founded in 2006 by a team of mission-oriented flight engineers and avionics specialist. GENA SYSTEMS honors the chosen few it calls “Mission-Critical Specialist” by engineering a full mission planning & operations system through the new SKY COMMANDER avionics system, developed for flight mission-oriented helicopter operators. The company has satellite offices in San Francisco, USA, and can be reach at: http://www.gena.at. For English-language call Elizabeth Avelar (FAA Rated Pilot) USA at 209.312.0115. For German-language call +43 662 854 885 0
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