Egypt Gears up for FPL 2012

CAIRO/EGYPT, January 2012 Egypts air navigation service provider NANSC has contracted COMSOFTs flight plan converter AIDA-FPL to perform due conversions from present to NEW format. According to Amendment 1 to ICAO Doc. 4444 a change of flight plan formats is required as of 15th November 2012. NANSC already operate an AMHS/AFTN/CIDIN system of the brand AIDA-NG and exchange flight plans with ANSPs of the MID region via the modern AMHS network.

In order to migrate from present to new format without any compromises in compatibility, flight plan converters have become a necessary need for many air navigation service providers (ANSPs). Furthermore, a converter allows its owners to bridge the gap until the ANSPs entire flight plan data processing environment is upgraded and thus fully compatible to the new format.

COMSOFTs flight plan converter AIDA-FPL is a mature gateway solution that on the one side incorporates the full range of functions and on the other side has already been tried and tested by numerous fellow ANSPs demonstrating its capability to migrate to the new format. AIDA-FPL applies elaborate algorithms for the automatic conversion with minimum manual configuration. It incorporates a set of sophisticated error handling mechanisms for the treatment of erroneous flight plans.

NANSC benefits from the fact that COMSOFTs converter has already been counterchecked to 100 per cent for conformance with the conversion rules in accordance with ICAO Doc 4444, Amendment 1, and was further scrutinised with a multitude of possible combinations of flight plan contents as well as with thousands of randomly picked real life traffic samples.