PACE 

Reliable demonstration of aircraft capabilities on customer routes

Pacelab Mission enables aircraft manufacturers’ technical sales and marketing teams to conduct detailed performance analyses for customer-specific route networks. Taking into account airline customers’ fuel reserves policies, preferred cruising altitudes, etc., the software allows a quick and objective evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of their product and those of their competitors.

Evaluation of candidate aircraft for existing or potential new routes

With Pacelab Mission, airlines are able to get a quick and objective assessment of the in-flight performance of different aircraft on existing or planned routes. Detailed candidate benchmarks support aircraft allocation and purchasing decisions and streamline negotiations with manufacturers and/or leasing companies.

Optimized vertical flight profiles

Pacelab Mission supports performance investigations of individual flight segments and the optimization of vertical flight profiles according to time, fuel burn or covered distance. Flight profiles can be easily set up from generic segment templates covering all relevant flight phases.

One-stop solution for in-flight performance analysis

With its comprehensive set of analysis options ranging from fuel or payload optimization to wind-affected range circle calculations, Pacelab Mission replaces a mish-mash of single-purpose tools and  puts a stop to multiple and often incompatible data formats.

Minimized processing time

With Pacelab Mission’s user-friendly route wizards and customizable batch calculations, large route networks are easily set up, modified, analyzed and summed up in customizable HTML reports.

Multi-level performance analysis

With Pacelab Mission, in-flight performance can be investigated at various levels including individual flight profile segments, entire flight missions with or without geographical context and for single data points (as defined by weight, speed and altitude).

Flexible definition of routes

Pacelab Mission allows the definition of routes as mere descriptions of the main profile parameters and range, altitude and weight settings or as real geographical paths with location-dependent parameters such as field elevation and airport temperature. Routes can be flexibly grouped into sets including multi-hop, non-refuel legs and reclearance scenarios.

1st and 2nd principles analysis

Depending on the available aircraft data, Pacelab Mission can calculate aircraft performance based on drag polars and engine decks or use integrated performance charts as typically provided in aircraft flight manuals instead.

Interfaces to third-party software

Interfaces to third-party tools allow a seamless integration of mission-relevant data including SCAP modules for takeoff and landing analysis, statistical vertical wind and temperature profiles (e.g. provided by Boeing PCWindTemp) or airport information.

ETOPS support

Pacelab Mission allows investigating ETOPS scenarios for geographically defined routes enabling users to assess the impact of different OEI speeds flown during ETOPS diversions. Investigations are facilitated by compliance checks for ETOPS time and fuel requirements and Google Earth plots of ETOPS circles, entry and exit points, etc.

Pacelab Mission

the solution for in-flight performance analysis
product data sheet pdf