New Features in Sabre AirCentre Flight Explorer Release 16.4

General

Australian Organized Track System (AUSOTS)

Flight Explorer includes additional functionality to display the Australian Organized Tracks.

Worldwide EDR turbulence data

Flight Explorer includes additional WAFC Washington GRIB2 decoding to provide global EDR turbulence data.

Dynamic North Atlantic Tracks

Flight Explorer completely redesigned North Atlantic Track (NAT) message ingestion, which adds the ability for NAT tracks to be decoded by the identifier and correctly displayed when used along a planned or filed route.

North American Icing Severity Data

Flight Explorer includes icing severity data for North America from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center.

MRMS radar and echo tops weather products

Flight Explorer includes additional Radar and echo tops weather products for the Contiguous US.

IATA Turbulence Aware enhancements

Sabre partnered with IATA to provide real-time and detailed EDR turbulence information through the Turbulence Aware Program for increased dispatcher situational awareness, enhanced safety, and optimized fuel consumption.

Impact alerting –

IATA Turbulence Aware EDR reports

Flight Explorer will produce an alert based on IATA EDR Turbulence Aware reports along the planned route of flight.

Impact alerting – PIREP Icing and Turbulence reports

Flight Explorer will produce an alert based on PIREP icing and turbulence reports along the planned route of flight.

Impact alerting – Threshold-based alerts

Flight Explorer allows impact alerting with a user-selectable distance threshold to avoid specific hazards. If 0 is entered in any of these fields, only direct intersections with hazards will generate an alert.

Impact alerting – Aircraft type-specific alerts

Flight Explorer provides additional functionality to configure distinct EDR turbulence alert thresholds based on the aircraft type.

Additional Airport Monitor display option

This enhancement will display metric and imperial units in the Airport List and Airport Tooltip, or as configured.

Additional weather products for autoload

Flight Explorer is now able to automatically load five weather products, even if the products are not in the current View and on-screen.

Drawing Object Manager – Add copy to clipboard for drawing objects dialog

Flight Explorer adds Copy points to clipboard button to the Drawing Objects window to copy all coordinates to the clipboard.

Drawing Object Manager – Add Delete and Delete all drawing objects confirmation prompts

Flight Explorer adds Delete and Delete all confirmation prompts to the Drawing Object manager window.

Drawing Object Manager – Export button

Flight Explorer adds Export functionality to the Manage drawing objects window.

Log file alert settings

Flight Explorer adds additional functionality to the extended log file alert settings. Position report source and tail/registration information can now be logged.

METAR/TAF copy function in Airport Summary

In the Airport Summary, the copy to clipboard functionality for METAR/TAFs is added.