Flight Plan Management System

Abstract

This document discusses the Flight Plan Management System (FPMS) developed for AIS Flight Briefing Centre at the Bandaranayke International Airport, Katunayake. The main purpose of the system is to provide a reliable, interactive and automated flight planning system to eliminate the errors by the user and reduce the amount of time taken when filing a Flight plan. Also provide the user with the ability to generate statistical records and invoices in order to reduce time, paper and labor. Flight plans contain flight critical data. Therefore, implementing such a system requires accuracy. Flight Plan management system (FPMS) consist of flight plan and relative message formats according to the specified standards while validating every user input. Parking and Landing revenue is automated to eliminate errors in calculations, and invoices are generated accordingly. Manuals which reference aircraft types and locations are also maintained in the system. Search mechanisms and reports generation for monthly and daily aircraft movement, flight schedule and revenue enhances day to day activities. The system is maintained by the administrator where the supervisor is able to update the database and operator is allowed to search, create and send messages. Like any other system FPMS maintains user accounts where all username and passwords are kept under lock and key. The system was developed using object oriented concepts, Java language using NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Swing framework, Apache Tomcat as the server and MySQL for database on a Windows platform. Jasper-Reports were used to generate reports and graphs. According to the requirements specified the system was designed and developed using methodologies and technologies mentioned above. The system has fulfilled its requirements and is successfully implemented