In a perfect world, everyone would have their own resources close by, and always available. In reality, helicopters need mainentance, the gimbal was mounted on the wrong aircraft and the ambulance is currently at another hospital. Sounds familiar?
Many organisations have to share resources, whether you are a helicopter company, police force or medical unit. In the end, it all comes down to proper planning.

Connectivity

The idea is that each of our products can be connected to each other over the internet and can be managed with a web-interface. Devices interact with each other, in the same way as they would have a tight integration.

Example : A helicopter operator has a contract with a hospital to fly an EMS helicopter.

• The helicopter operator needs a pilot crew on standby with all their licenses current. To save costs, they bought an Aerosimulators FTD level 6 so they can do all of the flight training during their standby hours, in stead of taking the helicopter out of standy and fly expensive training missions.

• The medical crew cannot train inside the cabin of the helicopter all the time. Therefore, they bought an Aerosimulators Medical Trainer, that is an exact replica of the EMS helicopter they work with.

For the most effective Crew Resource Managment training, the pilot crew and the medical crew need to work together. For this, they can connect the Flight Training Device to the Medical Trainer.

The mission: find a missing person that is lost in the woods for a couple of days and transport him to the hospital

At the same time, someone from Airborne Law Enforcement was brought into the training. He is not physicaly located at the hospital, since he is doing is standby hours in the local police department 15 miles away. So, he puts on his headset and browses the network to connect his GIST trainer to the Flight Training Device.

Shared Resource Management

A central website allows you to add your resources, whether they are real helicopters, gimbals, ambulances, or simulators. After that you add users to the system who can be linked to the resources when they use them. Depending on how you would like to manage it (centralized or decentralized) the outcome is always the same : there finally is an overview on :

• who is using a resource
• how long is the resource unavailable
• where is the resource located
  

Resources have time and user logs and they can have alarms set. If for example a helicopter resource is approaching his maintenance inspection an alarm event is generated. The manager sees this upcoming event in his schedule, and can plan for it.  We are certain that our software tools will help you a great deal in minimizing the chaos of running your organisation.