Self- und Homebriefing
News
Dear Homebriefing and Selfbriefing user,
As one of our most important customers, please accept our warmest thanks for the confidence you have placed in our products and services. We would also like to inform you about the upcoming changes planned to our Homebriefing and Selfbriefing facilities.
The requirement to pay for any Homebriefing services that are provided for non-state-mandated flight plans, which we announced in May 2007, will be introduced at the beginning of 2008. Until then, all the present Homebriefing services will remain available unchanged. Our Selfbriefing services are not affected by this development.
In addition to the above, as a result of certain harmonisations required among the partners and their authorities (which are taking more time than envisaged) and the findings obtained and experience gained in the current stabilisation phase, we have decided to make a number of improvements to the present organisational arrangements, initially at an internal level.
Basic and supplementary Homebriefing services from 2008
The price list for submitting non-state-mandated flight plans, which has understandably been the subject of sizeable interest among users, will be published on our Homebriefing website (under "Prices") in the next few days. Here is a brief summary of the products:
From January 2008 the Basic Homebriefing Service Account will be expanded by the addition of the following basic and supplementary packages, which distinguish between "Single Users", "Group Users" and "Business Users":
• "Single Users" are individuals who use the basic and supplementary Homebriefing packages alone and for private purposes. These services will be charged to the individual users concerned.
• "Group Users" are groups of individuals who use the basic and supplementary Homebriefing packages as members of an amateur flying club and require a common view of their briefing and flight plan data. Each of these groups will be defined and maintained by a Group Manager. The Group Manager can also define additional users within the group, by establishing a Single User and assigning it to their group. These services will be charged via the Group Manager.
• "Business Users" are individuals who generate more than 500 flight plans a month. These accounts will be defined and maintained by a Group Manager, and the services used will be charged via this Group Manager.
For further details here (including prices), visit
https://www.homebriefing.com/AesRepository/html/en_GB/prices_en.htm
Supplementary flight plan packages
Any additional non-state-mandated flight plans required by users can be obtained online within "flight plan packages". The flight plans obtainable within these packages remain valid for up to 36 months after the package has been purchased. Any flight plans that are still unused by the end of this 36-month period will automatically expire. Please note, too, that users will need to have the basic Homebriefing package to make use of this facility.
Funding for the Homebriefing service
Austro Control and skyguide are mandated by their respective governments to provide air navigation services for their sovereign airspace. These services include the receipt and processing of flight plans for departures from LSxx and LOxx airports and aerodromes and the provision of the corresponding NOTAM and MET briefing facilities. These state-mandated services are largely funded through route charges, approach charges and Homebriefing subscription fees.
The processing of flight plans for departures from non-LSxx and non-LOxx airports and aerodromes is not part of the state-issued mandates of Austro Control and skyguide. In view of this, such processing cannot be funded via the revenues deriving from these providers’ state-mandated services. If it were, this would amount to an illegal cross-subsidisation of a commercial service.
In view of this, Austro Control and skyguide are obliged to provide their non-state-mandated services – which include the processing of flight plans for departures from non-LSxx and non-LOxx airports and aerodromes – in a cost-covering manner, and in accordance with good business principles.
Austro Control and skyguide are convinced that they will be able to provide an even wider range of Homebriefing services in future to meet your flight planning and briefing needs. These will include in particular:
remote internet access wherever you may be
24/7 access to these services
comprehensive flight preparation using information solely from official, reliable and certified sources (JAR-OPS; Single European Sky)
the capability to submit and handle ICAO flight plans
automatic notification of flight plan status and ATC slot information by email and/or SMS text message
the creation of group accounts with your own multi-account management and administration
a clear view of all briefing and flight plan data within the group defined
simple group-based accounting.
With these and its further facilities, Homebriefing can be ideally integrated into the dispatch/pilot relationship. And this in turn will help substantially simplify processes and procedures for everyone concerned.
Austro Control
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrt mbH
Schnirchgasse 11, A-1030 Vienna
Phone: +43 (0) 517 03-0 Fax: +43 (0) 517 03-DW (ext.)
Email: ais.loww@austrocontrol.at
skyguide
swiss air navigation services ltd.
Product Management Information and Briefing Services
Flugsicherungsstrasse 1-5, CH-8602 Wangen bei Dübendorf
Phone: +41 (0)43 931 6155 Fax: +41 (0)43 931 6159
Email: aim.marketing@skyguide.ch Web: www.skyguide.ch