AeroTURN - Features and Compatibility

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Working with an extensive library of passenger, cargo and military aircraft – consultants and planners can easily check for aircraft space requirements, jet blasts, gate clearances, taxiway traffic, and terminal layouts. Together with features to create new aircraft types, produce sophisticated animations and generate top-level reports; makes AeroTURN the leading choice.

Aircraft Turn Simulation and Swept Path Analysis
  • Perform aircraft forward, reverse, and oversteer turning simulations through mouse movements using SmartPath tools with three interactive drive modes
  • Perform aircraft simulations using maximum nosewheel or effective steering angle to evaluate aircraft apron, taxiway, and runway clearances
  • Create aircraft simulations with a minimum clearance from an apron element (i.e. enter ICAO guidelines for minimum wheel clearance from taxiway curves)
  • Oversteer option gives realistic representation of how an aircraft negotiates oversteered conditions such as when parking an aircraft along lead-in lines or defining space requirements at runway-to-taxiway intersections
  • Place aircraft and support vehicle simulations on arcs, polylines, complex chains, or splines
  • Track landing gear and wing tip paths with user defined clearances
  • Create pilot conical lines of sight to evaluate mirror views, blind spots or headlight paths
  • Engage or disengage steerable main gear (on supported aircraft) during forward manoeuvres
  • Generate maximum effort aircraft turning simulations for airfield design checks to accommodate high angle turning or large aircraft access
Aircraft Pushback Capabilities
  • Aircraft pushback and towing operations with tractor and towbar configuration
  • Mark the tractor centreline path for towing and the aircraft main gear centreline path for pushback
  • Select from a filtered list of appropriate aircraft and tractor combinations
Airside Operations and Safety Features
  • Display aircraft fueling and service points with operational radii
  • Display aircraft jet blast envelopes at idle, breakaway, and takeoff speeds to ensure adequate safety zones for ground crew operations
  • Show standard ground servicing arrangements around a stationary aircraft
  • Set tracking points on or off the aircraft for envelope creation during a turning simulation
  • Generate apron safety clearance lines that account for all aircraft assigned to a specific stand
  • View ground service point locations for electrical, waste disposal, fuel, oxygen, air and hydraulics
Aircraft Database Library
  • 145 new aircraft and the ability to install expanded aircraft libraries
  • 40 new helicopters to the aircraft library from manufacturers including: Bell, Boeing, AgustaWestland, MD Helicopters, Eurocopter Group
  • Aircraft specifications library from major manufacturers including: Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Cessna, Lockheed Martin , Learjet, Gulfstream, Northrop Grumman, BAE, Learjet, Dassualt, Antonov, McDonnell Douglas and more
  • Ability to create aircraft with custom specifications and dimensions
Reporting Features
  • Generate aircraft turn simulation reports showing aircraft speed, path lengths, and start conditions at each section of the simulation
CAD Platform Compatibility

Platform Requirements:

  • AutoCAD® 2004 – 2011 series of products (except AutoCAD LT)
  • MicroStation® V8.1, V8 2004 (V8.5), V8 XM, V8i

System Requirements:

  • Full support for 64-bit operating systems
  • Workstation: Windows® XP, Vista, Windows® 7
  • Network: Windows® Server 2000, 2003, 2008

Languages Available:

  • English