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An FMS cuts pilot workload and boosts situational awareness by automating navigation, routing, fuel/altitude planning, and system integration. It covers FMC, CDU, nav databases and interfaces, stressing maintenance and updates. SOMA helps track FMS tasks and keep aircraft flight-ready.

Flight planning ensures route, fuel, alternates, and regulatory compliance for VFR, IFR, composite, DVFR flights. This guide explains what a flight plan is, how to prepare and file it (weather, routing, fuel, ICAO/FAA formats), and why it’s vital for safety and ATC. Tools like SOMA streamline accuracy and maintenance readiness.

Airline operations juggle competing priorities, fragmented data, and constant disruptions. This brief outlines the core pain points—compliance burdens, siloed communication, recovery delays, and legacy tech—and the trends reshaping resilience: predictive analytics, cross-department automation, cloud/mobile platforms, and tighter Maintenance–Flight Ops integration. See how integrated visibility accelerates decisions and performance.

One missed requirement can ground an aircraft. This guide shows how to control safety, compliance, and readiness across your fleet: key frameworks (V-model, agile), what to track (ADs, SBs, scheduled tasks, configuration), and best practices—traceability, version control, alerts, digital signatures—plus how tools like SOMA streamline it.

Aviation maintenance planning: be proactive to cut AOG and costs, boost safety and availability. Keys: forecasting, scheduling, resources, documentation, regulatory compliance. Combine tactical + strategic planning with integrated software.

Predictive maintenance replaces fixed-interval checks with sensor-based trend analysis that forecasts part wear, reserves inventory and schedules work before failure. Airlines cut AOG events, freight and inventory bloat while improving safety and schedule reliability. Implementation requires transparent statistical models, clean data and integration, not expensive AI or massive IT projects.

Modern aviation maintenance software replaces siloed legacy tools with integrated, mobile, AI-powered dashboards that deliver automated compliance alerts, real-time analytics and predictive maintenance, boosting safety, cutting AOG and costs.

LANHSA and MASAir moved from error-prone spreadsheets to SOMA’s integrated fleet platform, gaining real-time visibility, fewer AOGs, smoother compliance, and data-driven efficiency plus lower costs!

Stay ahead of aviation issues and threats that impact compliance, maintenance, and operations in 2025.