FlightAware to Release Revolutionary Flight Tracking Products at NBAA.HOUSTON -- FlightAware, the world leader in flight tracking and the operator of the FlightAware.com web site, announced Wednesday morning that they will release two new industry-transforming products (DirectFlight and AirportAware) at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA NBAA National Business Aviation Association, Inc. NBAA National Board of Accountants and Auditors NBAA Nichiren Buddhist Association of America ) 59th Annual Meeting & Convention in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. on October 17th, 2006. FlightAware will showcase DirectFlight and AirportAware as well as the FlightAware.com web site at booth #608 during the NBAA 2006 exhibit hours. DIRECTFLIGHT FlightAware DirectFlight API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. (Application Programming Interface) from FlightAware allows customers to seamlessly incorporate FlightAware technology and flight tracking data into existing or new aviation software applications. DirectFlight provides an industry standard web services-based programmatic interface Same as API. to FlightAware data and statistics. AIRPORTAWARE AirportAware provides intuitive and appealing arrival and departure boards designed for use by FBOs and general aviation airport facilities. AirportAware uses live FlightAware data to provide general aviation operation information on an LCD or Plasma flat-screen television. AirportAware can be easily tailored to inform FBO FBO Federal Business Opportunities FBO FedBizOpps (formerly Commerce Business Daily) FBO Fixed Base Operator FBO For the Benefit Of (finance) FBO Fixed Base Operation FBO Faith Based Organization personnel and customers of the live flight tracking data that's most important to them and their customers. TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW FlightAware receives and processes over 6,500,000 FAA radar position and flight information messages daily to provide flight tracking information for over 50,000 flights a day over the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . In addition to specific flight tracking, the FlightAware.com web site features live maps of the entire United States showing every plane in the sky as well as animations showing an entire day of air traffic activity. The FlightAware.com web site offers online arrival and departure "boards" for every airport in the country, even airports that only serve private planes. Web site users can not only view and track every inbound in·bound 1 adj. Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic. Adj. 1. inbound and outbound out·bound adj. Outward bound; headed away: outbound trains. Adj. 1. outbound - that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships" aircraft, but also see a live air traffic control-style map of the airport area. Airport information for pilots and aviation enthusiasts is also available such as runway information, airport diagrams, and airport procedures. About FlightAware FlightAware (http://flightaware.com/) is the most popular flight tracking company in the world. FlightAware was the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States. FlightAware offers flight tracking and aviation data analysis services to over half a million users via the free FlightAware.com web site as well as enterprise commercial services directly to aviation businesses. Founded in 2005, FlightAware is privately held and based in Houston. |
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