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APG Adds Flight Planning with Genesis App

The flight-planning module joins APG's weight-and-balance and runway analysis software solutions.

Left, a screen shot showing the Genesis weight and balance floorplan with crew, passenger, and baggage inputs as well as CG calculations. Right, a screen shot of the flight-planning module, which shows the route, graphical depiction with weather overlay, and user-selected constraints..

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

October 15, 2018

Aircraft Performance Group (APG) launched in 1999 with a clear mission, according to CEO Mike Caflisch, to help pilots determine “can you clear that hill at the end of the runway?” Since then the mission has grown to include more preflight planning functions in the form of an iPad app appropriately named iPreFlight. Now APG has launched a new flight-planning app called Genesis, and the mission has morphed into “how can I get to where I need to go after I clear that hill?”

Genesis picks up where APG’s iPreFlight app leaves off, by adding a new flight-planning engine that adds the finishing touches to iPreFlight’s weight-and-balance and runway analysis modules. With Genesis, pilots, dispatchers, and flight operations can plan and file a flight plan after loading up the airplane and evaluating runway performance capabilities, which include takeoff and landing data for that particular airplane. Demonstrations of Genesis are available at the APG booth (4179).

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