Dear Valued ARINCDirect Customer, 

ARINCDirect and FlightAware are excited to announce new tools that will empower you with greater flight tracking and situational awareness capabilities. FlightAware Foresight™ Uplink delivers estimated Time of Arrival, or ETA, information to the crew en route using ARINCDirect datalink. Meanwhile, several additional features added to the flight tracking page are combined with existing data to enhance insights for ground operations. Read on for more. 

FlightAware Foresight™ is existing technology that gathers data from multiple sources and predicts a more accurate ETA. ARINCDirect and FlightAware have worked together to provide this information to en route crew via ARINCDirect datalink. By typing “ETAFA” as a request into the Flight Management System, or FMS, crew members of ARINCDirect datalink equipped aircraft can receive the latest ETA back to the cockpit. Pilots can use this information to compare to the ETA data from the FMS. FlightAware Foresight ™ is a predictive technology using machine learning and, as such, will continue to improve over time which will present increased accuracy in ETA. 

The added insights are not only for pilots en route. Today, operators use multiple tools, phone calls, and emails to maintain a pulse on an aircraft's movement or imminent departures. Changes to schedule or delays lead to several checks and balances across flight department members who need to remain in the know. Visibility to these changes becomes just as challenging as making the changes themselves. These additional tracking page features will provide ARINCDirect customers more information and allow for consolidated tracking efforts into one site you are already familiar with, your ARINCDirect Flight Tracking portal page. These features include the Schedule Visualizer, Cockpit Situational Insights, and Ready to Taxi. 
The Schedule Visualizer will assist in identifying any conflicts or overlapping schedules and is presented in a convenient 24-hour bar chart view of scheduled aircraft activity. If you have a delay leading up to the expected taxi time and this will cause an overlap or conflict with another flight, this tool will provide you awareness and allow you to mitigate the conflict. Optionally clearing the conflict helps your portal page reflect the latest information regarding your scheduled flights. 
 
Cockpit Situational Insights, or CSI, presents new data on the portal page that you otherwise may be finding at another source or not aware of at all. CSI takes a deeper dive into airport conditions including weather and current runway use. This data is shown on each flight’s individual tracking page and updated in real-time. As part of CSI, you may also navigate to the Track Log via flight replay to view autopilot heading and altitude information throughout a flight.  
 
For added situational awareness on the location of aircraft before takeoff and after landing, Ready to Taxi, or RTT, alerts are now available on the portal page and for delivery via ARINCDirect auto-forward code. In addition to the ability to track an airborne aircraft, RTT now allows you to also track the ground movement including when the avionics powers on, the taxi out start, and the taxi in period. These surface alerts provided with Ready to Taxi will also be accompanied by a live surface map allowing for live monitoring of taxiing aircraft. Where available, the name of the FBO location of a parked aircraft will also be displayed.  
 
Information from these features including Schedule Visualizer, Cockpit Situational Insights, and Ready to Taxi, is now available on your Flight Tracking portal page if you are an existing ARINCDirect flight planning or ARINCDirect data link subscriber. Ready to Taxi alerts can also be set up for auto-forwarding within company admin accounts allowing that visibility to extend beyond users of the Flight Tracking page itself. To enable these new features, launch your Flight Tracking page now. 

For more information on each of these new features and other functionality available to you via Flight Tracking, see our Product Guide. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to the 24x7 Flight Operations Team at +1 410-266-2266.  
From all of us at ARINCDirect, we want to thank you for your continued support as we aim to simplify the business of flight.