Artist Nixon Galloway barn·storm Pronunciation: 'bärn-"storm Function: verb intransitive senses 1 : to tour through rural districts staging usually theatrical performances 2 : to travel from place to place making brief stops (as in a political campaign or a promotional tour) 3 : to pilot one's airplane in sight-seeing flights with passengers or in exhibition stunts in an unscheduled course especially in rural districts transitive senses : to travel across while barnstorming - barn·storm·er noun Src: Merriam-Webster dictionary It's great work if you can get it. We can help. Barnstormer™, is the original inspiration for our slogan: Management Solutions Through Space and Time.... It is Innovation Creation's offering to the small and medium sized charter operator. Don't take the definition above too literally. Barnstormer™ is well suited for a myriad of aviation operations. Indeed it is even being used by boat charter companies. If scheduling flexibility is important to your operation, then Barnstormer is for you. Barnstormer was built  primarily with air taxi operators and specialty air services in mind. As such it is the perfect tool for charter-by-the-seat operations flying the newest class of Very Light Jets (VLJs) such as the Eclipse 500, Cessna Mustang, and Diamond D-Jet (pictured). With the Barnstormer™ solution, you can focus more of your energy on marketing and executing your charter services while letting Barnstormer™ make short work of optimizing flight reservations, operations, and bookkeeping tasks. For aviation services, cost-competitiveness is key to your success. We know it and we know how to achieve it. What are your missions? Charter Quotes Charter-By-The-Seat Flight Training Executive Transport Aerial Photography Search & Rescue Aerial Advertising Sightseeing Shuttles Air Ambulance Bird Towing Long-Lining Bird-Dogging Frost Fighting Aerial Application Glider Towing Parachuting Pipeline Patrol Film/Television Prop Heli-Skiing At first glance, it may seem that everything after "Charter-By-The-Seat" is just a subset of the first two, and you would be right in the most simplistic model. However what if you need to pay an AME for the sign-off of a camera mount? What if you want to offer caviar to the executives? What if you must provide ground transport to your shuttle passengers? What about all that time sitting on the ground waiting for the Director's next take, or for the fire boss to radio in? And of course, dead-heading is something customers and operators alike don't want to pay for. Any of these caveats are potential costs and potential revenue. As a comprehensive information system that places revenue management front and center, Barnstormer™ allows you to easily capture these and many other nuances of your operation. Build your schedules, and offer the most competitive prices in your market. Sample Screen Shots: The folowing examples are by no means the whole story. They aim to give you some idea of Barnstormer's™ rich functionality and intuitive user interface. Barnstormer's™ booking interface is highly user-configurable for different operational paradigms. In this shot, the large white area represents the day with the time of day listed down the left side . Across the top are the aircraft registries or whatever other identifying nomenclature you wish to use. Within the white area are the individual flights with the passengers' names listed and the type or level of service they have booked. Various colour coding and short forms are used (e.g. a check mark means passengers have checked-in). Individual passengers can be dragged around and dropped on new time slots, different aircraft, and/or on another existing flight. Similary entire flights can be moved around to new times, new aircraft, or onto existing flights. Flights and/or passengers can be dragged and dropped on different days in the calendar. The tabbed control on the lower left provides a repository for flights or passengers with as yet indefinite status. Various other icons and menus allow for the duplication or transposition of data. Barnstormer is ergonomic. Data entry processes flow logically (generally from top left to bottom right), and everything can be done via keyboard-only if desired. Barnstormer offers both real-time internet booking capabilities and online booking requests. The latter allows you to advertise your services online and accept requests for services online which are then queued on the web server to be downloaded and processed by your staff when they are next connected to the internet. Weight and Balance calculations are easy. First select the template configuration (top left) of the aircraft in question. Next, assign passenger seats by clicking a passenger's name, traversing the mouse over their weight, then clicking the mouse on the appropriate station. The same is done for the pilot, baggage, equipment, fuel, and any other items you wish. Like everywhere else in Barnstormer, the whole process can be done without the use of a mouse quickly and efficiently. In this example, the aircraft is an AS350 B helicopter with dual front passenger seats. Another configuration might be for the same helicopter with a WesCam gyro mount installed. An entirely different configuration template would be defined. Indeed, an operator might have any number of different aircraft with any number of different configurations - all easily user-defined. Once weights have been assigned, a click of the "Rebuild" button will calculate the aircraft's C of G and gross weight. And if a C of G envelope has been defined in the system, it will also advise whether the aircraft is within limits. These results are retained in the system database and can serve as ground based W & B copies as required by some JARs. Barnstormer Features Time Charter & Charter-by-the-Seat Multiple Time-Zone Support User-Defined Over-Booking Levels Multiple Fare Classes Multiple Classes of Service Full Transaction Tracking Boarding Passes Seat Assignment Unlimited Fleet Size Unlimited Configuration/Aircraft Weight & Balance Calculator Baggage Tagging City Pair Tariff Definitions Routing Options Calculator Bulk Scheduler User Defined Additional Charges Automatic Modification/Canx Charges Agency Account Support Agency Commissions Definitions Split Payments Multiple Currencies Charter Quotation Generator Email Enabled Invoice Generator Agent Accounts Statements Accounts Receivable Reporting Realized/Unrealized Revenue Reporting User-defined Revenue Management Reports Remittance Reports (taxes, landing fees, etc.) On-the-Fly Yield Analysis Tools Export to GL Microsoft .NET Technologies Rich and Thin Client Support MS SQL Server back-end n-tiered architecture Synch/Asynch Internet Connectivity E-commerce Enabled NT Security For more information and a demonstration of Barnstormer, please contact Sales at The Innovation Creation Corporation.
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