The preferred choice of airport designers, planners, and operators around the world, AviPLAN is the complete CAD software solution for safe and accurate airside planning and design. Whether you are considering near-term scenarios or master planning, AviPLAN lets you plan with confidence. Use it to revise apron layouts, develop complex stands with multiple boarding bridges, design taxiways and fillets, and to generate detailed nose-gear or cockpit ground markings. It also allows you to perform safety clearance, jet blast impact, or operational efficiency studies.
There are four AviPLAN products, from the comprehensive AviPLAN Airside Pro to AviPLAN Turn. The software suits all requirements, from busy, multi-fleet international airports that accommodate intercontinental flights, to smaller regional airports. All products feature an extensive library of passenger, cargo and military aeroplanes and helicopters, plus ground support vehicles modelled according to manufacturer specifications. A library of passenger boarding bridges for designing your own contact or remote stands is also available in AviPLAN Airside and Airside Pro.
Benefits
Save design time
Using the easy-to-use graphical interface, simply overlay AviPLAN simulations on top of your existing CAD airport drawing to quickly test whether your design will accommodate safe aircraft and vehicle manoeuvres from runway to gate. AviPLAN generates accurate movements based on inputs, including variations in speed and steering angle (even in reverse), and different types of turns. It will also automatically follow identified nose gear or cockpit ground markings.
Depend on accurate results
AviPLAN’s library incorporates the most up-to-date manufacturer information on a range of aircraft, including dimensions, capabilities, jet blast data, and other specifications. The library also contains a broad spectrum of ground support vehicles, and in the case of AviPLAN Airside and Airside Pro, an array of passenger boarding bridges. You can also create your own custom vehicles. With Transoft’s well-established, validated algorithms, you can trust you are seeing the precise, true-to-life results of aircraft and vehicle maneuvers on the ground. In fact, manufacturers often use AviPLAN to test the capabilities of their equipment.
Drive operational efficiencies
Airports rely on making the most of their available airside space while ensuring safe and efficient movement of aircraft, service vehicles, passenger boarding bridges and passengers. AviPLAN allows you to precisely plan and simulate safe aircraft manoeuvres from runway to gate as well as the placement and staging of service equipment. The result- efficient operations that minimise impact on the environment while maximising the bottom line.
View important details
AviPLAN clearly displays the details you need to see: aircraft paths (nose and main gear, cockpit, engines, and wingtips), safety clearance envelopes, and jet blast velocity contours, and impact areas for various thrust levels. Safety clearance guidelines from ICAO, FAA and EASA are also included in the software.
Produce compelling reports and presentations
Easily create CAD text block, Microsoft Word and Excel reports, and export or share templates and custom objects. With the Pro versions, you can also convert technical aircraft maneuver and docking simulations into sophisticated 2D and 3D movie presentations, so stakeholders can easily visualise complex technical results or capacity issues.
Choose from
AviPLAN Turn
Perform aircraft and ground vehicle simulations, following nose gear or cockpit ground markings, and analyse pushback operations with AviPLAN Turn. Account for different speeds and turning angles, all with a few clicks of the mouse. Elements such as swept paths, engine-intake areas, safety clearances and jet blast contours, and impact areas can be clearly visualised in a 2D CAD environment.
AviPLAN Turn Pro
AviPLAN Turn Pro has all the features of AviPLAN Turn, but you can also simulate groups of aircraft moving simultaneously, to design taxiway fillets and generate detailed nose gear or cockpit ground markings. Use its 3D capabilities to review vertical clearances or create sophisticated movie-style animations for stakeholder presentations.
AviPLAN Airside
AviPLAN Airside brings you the capabilities of aircraft and service vehicle manoeuvring found in AviPLAN Turn, plus the added ability to plan aircraft parking stands. Design contact or remote parking positions and access a full library of 2D passenger boarding bridges, which can be modified with your own specific bridge characteristics including limits, cabin rotation, slope, and more.
AviPLAN Airside Pro
The full package of features and tools to simulate aircraft and service vehicle movement. Use AviPLAN Airside Pro to design taxiway intersections (including fillets), nose gear or cockpit centerline markings, and complex stands with multiple boarding bridges and lead-in lines (MARS stands). Extra stand planning features include automatic stop line creation and airplane positioning, parking optimisation, and conflict detection. You can also define apron services such as fuel pits, 400Hz and conditioned air. The software’s 3D capabilities allow you to present compelling results through animated presentations.
Features
What you see on screen is as close as it can get to real life because AviPLAN accurately reflects how aircraft and service vehicles move on the ground, and what can be achieved by a pilot, vehicle or bridge operator.
Choose from a library of aircraft and vehicles
Select from a comprehensive library of commercial, cargo and military aeroplanes, helicopters, VTOLs, pushback tractors, and ground service equipment (including catering trucks, luggage carts, conveyor belts, and so on), or create your own custom vehicle. AviPLAN Airside and Airside Pro also include a library of passenger boarding bridges.
Simulate aircraft and ground vehicle manoeuvres
AviPLAN’s reliable algorithms generate accurate movements and swept paths. Even complex maneuvers that require extreme turns, like those executed on a runway turn pad, can be precisely simulated. ICAO, FAA, and EASA aeroplane classification and clearance regulations are built in to help you maintain required safety distances and clearances from runway to gate. Jet blast contours and impact surfaces for various engine thrust levels can also be clearly visualised.
Analyse aircraft pushback operations
Define new operational pushback procedures or verify existing ones by accurately portraying complex manoeuvres using towbarless and tractor/towbar configurations.
Plan seamless aircraft loading and servicing
Model aircraft turnaround requirements utilising manufacturer-specified or custom service vehicle arrangements to best manage the use of staging areas and service roads. Also design contact or remote parking positions with both AviPLAN Airside and AviPLAN Airside Pro.