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Helping the helpers since way back 🚁 ⛑ 💙

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Interview with Richard Alder of NAFC — 2019 Fire Season

TracPlus spoke to Richard Alder from The National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) about their predictions for the upcoming fire season and the future of drones in the industry.

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The World's Longest Flight: What It Means For Pilots

The longest commercial flight in history is now being offered by Singapore Airlines. You will be able to board an Airbus A350-900ULR (emphasis on the Ultra Long Range) in Singapore and fly nonstop, approximately 19 hours, and land in New York.

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Night Vision Goggles Bringing Wildfires Into Focus - Part 4

In our final instalment, Southern California-based Ventura County Aviation Unit’s Senior Pilot discusses their Night Vision Goggle (NVG) program, and Victoria, Australia-based Kestrel Aviation share some insight into fighting bushfires Down Under.

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Where'd All the Pilots Go?

Flying is, and will always be, expensive and demanding... because it is.

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Night Vision Goggles Bringing Wildfires Into Focus - Part 3

In our third instalment, more Southern California helicopter pilots discuss using Night Vision Goggles (NVG) for wildland firefighting.

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Technology that promises to keep aerial firefighters safe

As the temperatures slowly drop in one part of the world and soar in another, there becomes increasingly less downtime for firefighters. The statistics don’t lie. Wildfires are becoming increasingly widespread and relentless. Additionally, the population is growing, and in turn, the boundaries of cities in metro areas are moving further and further out. We are seeing residential areas encroaching on country that wants to burn. These factors are adding increasing pressure on those who operate in harm’s way — and because of this, there’s more expectation on fire agencies to offer a long-term service to better keep people, communities and housing, safe.

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Introducing Custom Forms

In line with our “globally connected” philosophy, it’s time to announce the latest fantastic feature that TracPlus supports — *Custom Forms*.

Last year, TracPlus introduced forms — allowing our users to choose, fill in and send forms from anywhere in the world, using an iPad or iPhone connected to a TracPlus supported device. Using these forms, a pilot can send a passenger manifest directly from the aircraft as soon as they have completed loading, a forestry worker can sign in when they arrive at their remote job site, or a fishing skipper can send a catch report as soon as it is completed.

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Classic Kiwi Road Trips Like No Other — Meet Pilot Cherie Marshall

Like many kids in the 1970s, Cherie learnt to drive on her father's lap. But unlike most, she was learning to drive an aeroplane!

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Use the power of the revolutionary RockAIR to unlock the potential of OzRunways

If you use OzRunways, you can now enjoy the benefits of global connectivity by simply linking up with TracPlus and the revolutionary RockAIR — Satellite/Cellular tracking at its best.

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TracPlus — Let’s talk about the ‘Plus’

TracPlus is a renowned tracking service provider that has a worldwide presence. People attribute our company with exceptional customer support, an exemplary tracking product, and a fantastic platform to view their tracking history.

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The Collective

We’re extremely excited to introduce TracPlus’ new media initiative, *The Collective*.

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Night Vision Goggles Bringing Wildfires Into Focus - Part 2

A number of fire agencies use Night Vision Goggles (NVG) for wildland firefighting. Nowhere has this been more true than in Southern California. In this second instalment, helicopter pilots detail their history and experience with NVG over the years.

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Are You Ready for Only One Pilot in Your Cockpit?: Hal, Is That You?

What it means to “pilot” a commercial airplane has shifted over the years, and a current proposal is challenging the unique relationship pilots have with their airplanes.

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Karlene Petitt — Flight To Success

Karlene Petitt has an extensive aviation career and has so many credentials to her name. Almost too many to list. From Airbus pilot to author, to PhD student, not to mention a busy grandmother to 7, she is certainly moving at the pace of a jet stream.

Flying is an incredible feeling somewhat a mixture between calm and excitement at the same time. The most important thing about learning to fly is to know that it’s a continual and lifelong process.

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The Helicopter Line, Queenstown, New Zealand 

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LifeFlight Australia 

It was a pleasure to meet the team at LifeFlight, and to hear about all the good they’re doing in the community. They’ve been TracPlus customers for close to 6 years, and we’re very proud that we’re able to support them in their work. “For us operational control has been a really big focus. As we’ve grown, the need to know where every asset is at one point in time, to coordinate it, to schedule it, and that we’re meeting our contractual obligations has been an absolute focus for us. TracPlus has given us the ability to do that, and do that very accurately, and consistently over many years now. Without it, wouldn’t be able to achieve operational control. Tracplus is very important in the overall workings, and how we flight follow and to how we provide a duty of care to our staff, but also our clients” — Brian Guthrie, LifeFlight.

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The Helicopter Line - Queenstown, New Zealand with TracPlus