Flight Planning

System and Message Overviews

Document Version: 5.6

Date: November 15, 2016

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Table Of Contents

1  Introduction

This document defines the interfaces which govern the interchange of data between a Flight Planning system and other systems within an Airline Operation Center (AOC).  Each AOC interface is represented by a message described in an associated XSD (XML Schema Definition). The XSD defines and enforces the required, optional, and conditional data that can be included in a message.

1.1  Audience

The intended audience for this document includes existing and potential Jeppesen customers, integration partners, and personnel with roles associated with application architecture, application development, system testing, implementation, and application support within flight planning operations.

1.2  Scope

This document discusses the Flight Planning messages currently supported by the Jeppesen Solution Integrator. Each message description includes the following:

• Overview for common message uses within an AOC
• Message Version Summary listing all available versions of each message
• Links to the message specifications including direct links to XSD documentation, where you can explore the XSD hierarchy and interface specifications in a navigable HTML format
• Links to the XSD source code
• Links to sample XML messages for each AOC message

Other data interfaces or formats not included in this document will be considered custom and not supported.

1.3  XML Schema/XSD

The XML schema for this ICD is published in the following file: FlightPlanning.XSD

2  Message Summary

Table 2-1 lists the messages that can be sent or handled by the application. The messages originated by this application (messages that begin with “FP”) are further discussed in Section 3 AOC Interface Messages.

Table 2-1 Message Summary

3 AOC Interface Messages

The following messages are processed by the Flight Planning system.

3.1 FP001 - Flight Planning

3.1.1  Message Overview

The Flight Planning message provides a flight plan calculation for specified input, returning all of the calculations that are essential to the flight plan.

3.1.2  Message System Flow

This message interacts with the systems as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. FP001 message system flow

3.1.3   Message Details

The following table provides details on the message version and includes links to the message’s technical specification.