Dispatching Software

[pilotyip]

Has anyone tried BART?

 

[propsarebest]

Has anyone tried BART?

121 world, no... 135 world... yes. Out flight dept. did all of the scheduling with BART.

 

[shark77]

Most corporate flight departments I know of use CTA-FOS. Some use Jepp, I also know flight departments that have used Flightpak which is made by Universal. One company I used to work for used software called Andromeda made by Camp systems, but I think that is pretty rare these days.

Sabre, Lido, Navtech are designed for the airline enviornment. It's apples and oranges.

Exactly, from experience, Sabre and Navtech are going to cost you at least 15k to start up. Then your monthly fees will be at a minimum of 5k a month. That is pretty pricey for a small operation.

 

[deltabobo]

Here at Ryan, they are trying to switch over to Sabre from Jepp. Jepp was giving us problems at times, but lately no snafus. Jepp is great for international planning which is what we do 95% of the time here. Sabre is great for scheduled services, but awful for ad-hoc.

Having used FOS, Sabre, and Jeppesen, I personally love Jeppesen the best. Again, that is my opinion.

 

[bgaviator]

When I was dispatching fractional, we used Jeppesen product....I really hated it....the Jeppesen servers would sometimes go down for an entire day thus leaving our flight crews to file plans themselves. The software also tended to generate funky routings. I now work with Navtech at a 121 airline, and I have no real complaints....there are some minor annoyances, but they are also in development of a new version of Navtech which will be out by the end of this year I think.

 

[PMVULB AvMgr]

As was mentioned in an earlier post, most of the software systems mentioned have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the Corporate world. There are about 5 systems used by biz operators - the major players are FOS by CTA, PFM, AIS, Flightpak and BART.

Both BART and Flightpak exist on a shoestring - BART is so full of mistakes and problems that anyone using it pulls their hair out. Flightpak is no longer actively marketed - it only exists for customers of Universal Wx & Avtn who insist on using this outdated system. AIS is confusing as heck. That leaves the two leaders in the field, PFM and CTA.

I personally have used CTA in several operations I've been involved in, and absolutely find it to be the best system on the market. Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions about it.