For crew planning and managementTools that help you create, manage and monitor crew rosters and training so your people and your business can perform at their peak

CrewLogic connects with

CrewLogicAn indispensable tool for effective crew management. CrewLogic harnesses the power of APM’s optimiser to generate crew pairings and rosters with the potential to generate high performance and fairness at minimum cost.

Applying local aviation authority regulations and airline crew rule agreements, CrewLogic identifies the ideal crew pairings which meet the demands of your flight schedule whilst conforming to crew flight-time limitations. The result identifies your required establishment using either an actual or virtual crew approach.

Once crew routes are created, APM’s optimiser automatically assigns duties to crew members based upon user-defined distribution of flight types, be they fair or unfair. The duties are only allocated to crew members with the appropriate qualifications, aircraft and airport recent experience and rest.

Standbys can be manually or automatically allocated, together with legal rest days, hotac and third party positioning (dead headings).

CrewLogic’s comprehensive training feature lets you assign ground training events, such as simulators and flight training, to crew members including line training and a crew role transition training function. The training activities are published in the roster along with updated crew qualifications resulting in a compliant roster for all crew members.

Flight amendments from APM’s SchedulePlanner or SmartOps, which affect crew pairings or rosters, are shown visually in a regulation graphical display so that irregularities are easily identified and solved.

A crew-track changes feature means that you are able to easily identify and update crew roster changes by using the crew regulations display.

To analyse the results, CrewLogic offers a comprehensive range of reports and graphs with a very helpful function to measure individual results to the average.

Roster management

real-time crew control on day of operation with changes alert displays

production and distribution of crew rosters

crew regulation display

allocation of crew pairings with APM’s optimiser

Analysis and reporting

production and distribution of crew rosters

Cari 6 cosmic ray recording and report generation

general declaration publication

customs declaration publication

crew manifest/APIS generation

post-flight crew records update log for crew pay calculations and crew hours

extensive range of crew reports and statistics with user definedoutputs and formats including crew roster reports, roster changes, messages, crew duty and crew training reports

crew records with duty, FDP, flight and block hours

Crew route pairings

automated construction of flight duty pairings and rosters using regulatory and company rules*

automatic crew establishment calculations by crew base

ability to manually adjust crew pairings and rosters

generation of crew pairings with APM’s optimiser*

*APM’s optimiser is delivered with a default parameters set but these can be tailored to suit your airline by taking advantage of APM’s optimisation consultancy service

Crew administration and training

crew database with personal details, preferences, availability, base, qualifications, languages, passport and visa validities

fully configurable crew training and qualifications

ability to allocate flight and ground training events for qualification management

ability to record and update training event results

management of recurrent checks plus training and qualification alerts

manage aircraft and airport crew recent experience

crew role transition training function

crew messaging featuring SMS, web and email

web access to individual roster changes, messages and holiday and flight requests

SchedulePlanner CrewSim CrewWebPlus

SmartOps

CrewSim connects with

CrewSimCrewSim lets you create and test multiple crewing scenarios. Being a sandbox-tool parallel to the production environment, it identifies the most efficient and effective crewing solution.

By importing your existing crew data from CrewLogic, and combining it with your flight schedule from either SchedulePlanner or ScheduleSim, CrewSim allows you to test multiple crew pairings, establishments and rosters that you can be sure are airline and aviation authority crew rules-compliant.

CrewSim’s optimisers can, of course, be fine-tuned by APM’s consultancy service to meet your specific airline’s requirements.

Its suite of analysis and reporting tools allows you to display several scenarios on the same screen in just a few clicks. This enables easy evaluation of your options so you can decide on a preferred crewing scenario.

Before you export the scenario back to production, CrewSim gives a visual graphical display of all differences between your production pairings and crew roster, and those in your scenario, so you can decide which to maintain in production in the export process. You can then export this to the production environment of CrewLogic to form the foundation of your season’s crew management or to identify your long-term establishment planning.

Administration, analysis and reporting

import complete or partial schedules from ScheduleSim, or a live production schedule from SchedulePlanner

build in and apply airline and aviation authority crew rules and parameters

easy interpretation of scenarios, using a range of reporting tools make roster comparison more intuitive and efficient

export the desired scenario back into CrewLogic

compare up to five solutions on one screen with crew details and graphical charts

Pairing optimiser

automatically generate crew rule-compliant crew pairings to cover flights

parameterisation of rules to be ignored by the optimiser such as extended duty pairings and augmented crew pairings

generation of pairings by crew roles

define multiple crew base airports and stopover airports

ability to limit pairings by crew base

automated creation of hotac using a hotac dictionary

automated generation of pre and post flight positioning (deadheading) using a generic dictionary

generate standby pairings for a selected period with a user-defined crew complement

Integrated crew roster optimiser

two-phase rostering optimiser to legally assign all crew routes - including standby pairings - and optimise balancing criteria such as block, duty, standby, and good or bad destinations

simulate pairings with compositions creating rosters to calculate the projected crew establishment

calculate the minimum number of crew required, accounting for factors including training, standby, leave and sickness

create virtual crews for long-term establishment planning

evaluate scenarios of fair or unfair crew duty allocations including duty, block time, routes and training

identify pairings unable to be assigned to any crew and crews unable to be used for duties

define ground activities to be considered as crew availability

automatically generate additional virtual crews and assign pairing duties that could not be assigned to any crew

take into account crew complements on pairings as well as crew role compatibility

balance by total crew or scaled by crew availabilities

define crews with target block times by month

dynamic balancing phase enables creation of multiple primary objective solutions, assignment of selected duties to some crews and balance for others, and dynamic changes to secondary objectives while maintaining primary objectives

limit event allocation by flight number, by destination and by ground activity

graphical overview of a roster (in read-only mode) to evaluate solutions prior to validation

SchedulePlanner ScheduleSim

CrewLogic CrewWebPlus

SmartOps

CrewWebPlusAn optional addition for CrewLogic, CrewWebPlus lets your crew access essential information - such as rosters, messages and briefings - at anytime, anywhere, via the web in either a text or a graphical visual display.

Crew members can check their personal details and qualifications, and send request messages to their crew planning manager, as well as receive alerts about last-minute duty changes. Crew briefing reports, general declarations and customs declarations can also be printed locally by crew members.

So long as they have the correct permissions, senior crew members can also review their crew’s rosters and duty qualifications without the need to contact their crew planning manager.

CrewWebPlusadministration

ability to view personal details

the possibility to view qualifications

the chance to review training activities

graphical and text view of crew duties

the ability to obtain and print the released roster

a roster changes alert section

a platform for receiving crew messages

a crew request function

a portal for sending the crew planner messages

customs and general declaration report generation

ability to review a user’s web connection history

CrewWebPlus connects with

CrewLogic

Scheduling A suite of scheduling and slot management tools that are tailor-made to help you plan, manage and monitor your airline’s schedule and slots. Crewing Tools that help you create, manage and monitor crew rosters and training so your people and your business can perform at their peak. Operations Specialised flightwatch software tools for real-time decision-making so your airline’s on time.

Commercial Commercial analysis, transactional and supplier communication tools to manage invoicing, pricing, costs, catering and maximise profitability.

Installation From detailed analysis and software development to day-to-day phone support, APM’s consultancy team provides all the aviation technology expertise you will need.

Integration APM provide functionality to integrate with other third party systems and, of course, IATA messaging. APM’s technical team have extensive experience in creating Web Services and XML integration.

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