Your airport is vital to the economic growth of the region. The problem, especially in the current economic times, has always been conveying the benefits of your airport’s operation to local officials and the surrounding community relative to the environmental impact. As aviation will ultimately return to its 5% annual growth curve; it has never been more important for you to accurately track and record detailed aircraft operations for airport master planning, billing, maintenance, marketing and to manage the impact by responding to your community.

Lochard is pleased to announce the launch of FlightOps, a low-cost, easy to use and accurate web-based application developed to help you communicate the importance of your airport. Aircraft flight tracks are overlaid and replayed on simplified street and satellite maps; while all aircraft operations data are batched and reported on a daily and monthly basis to help you track and report growth and airport use.

Providing World-Class Environment Management Solutions

Brüel & Kjær announces the acquisition of Australian company Lochard Ltd with the intention of providing customers with world-class Environment Management Solutions.

Environment Management Solutions (EMS) involves monitoring and management of noise and climate parameters in cities and airports with the purpose of reducing environmental impacts and to ensure compliance of national and international regulations.

AirTrak-Carbon Manager enables airports to easily assess and track aircraft carbon emissions.

Without accurate knowledge of aircraft emissions, managing and reporting on an airport’s overall carbon footprint is impossible. Established methods, using average times in mode, have been shown to over-estimate emissions by up to 30%.

Lochard’s AirTrak-Carbon Manager uses actual flight track data. This delivers a very accurate assessment of aircraft emissions, broken into individual flight phases to reveal emissions specific to each segment e.g. taxiing or time in holding zone.