PANDA (Procedures for Air Navigation – Design and Analysis) is a software system for visual flight and instrument flight procedures automated design in accordance with ICAO Doc.8168-OPS/611, Procedures for Air Navigation Services – Aircraft Operations (PANS-OPS). PANDA is a next generation software product with advanced ideology and functionality. It has already been successfully tested, implemented and applied to challenging operational tasks of the Aeronautical Information Services in Azerbaijan, Latvia and Estonia. 

 

 

PANDA: an integrated solution for a demanding user   In addition to its basic functions of automated procedures design, PANDA allows you to: 
 

• analyse existing air navigation procedures and their conformity with established PANS-OPS criteria; 

• examine impact of planned construction on air navigation safety; 

• evaluate navaid locations from the point of operational efficiency. 

PANDA: a system for procedure designers at any proficiency level 

 

• Novice: if a designer has started learning and practicing PANS-OPS, PANDA will help to gain proficiency and intelligence in applying PANS-OPS criteria to procedure design. 

• Intermediate: if a designer is well versed in PANS-OPS but does not have enough practical experience, PANDA will propose more sophisticated approaches to procedures design. 

• Expert: if a designer is an experienced professional, PANDA will allow concentrating on key procedural parameters and aid in optimising them. 

 

 

PANDA’s features allow designing terminal and en-route procedures for different categories of aircraft as well as for specific navigation aids. 

PANDA divides design process into logically sequential design phases, accompanied by automatic construction and conflict-free linking of nominal trajectories and associated obstacle assessment areas of successive flight segments. 

PANDA’s user-friendly wizard interface shows relevant parameters, reports on evaluated obstacles and presents an efficient way to accomplish design of an entire procedure at one interactive work session with a predefined sequence of dialogues. 

PANDA identifies dominant obstacles and calculates procedure parameters that assure necessary obstacle clearance. 

PANDA contains an internal database of criteria and parameters laid down in PANS-OPS to filter trivial erroneous solutions. 

 PANDA: based on an advanced GIS platform 
 

 PANDA System is based on ArcView 9.x ArcGIS ESRI. A standard package of ArcView 9.x, comprising three applications – ArcMap, ArcCatalog and ArcToolbox – is a set of powerful tools for mapping, report generation and cartographic analysis. 

 

 

PANDA is functionally oriented to keep to the quality management system while designing air navigation procedures. The whole design process is recorded and documented. The format and thoroughness of these documents make validation and endorsement of newly designed procedures possible without recourse to extrinsic evidence. 

 

Please visit www.pandanavigation.com to obtained more information on air navigation applications developed by R.I.S.K. Company.