NavBlue Experience

jetsguy737

jetsguy737

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Since joining my new company, I have been introduced to NavBlue and N-Tracking. Curious who else uses it and what your experience has been. Seems like a complex but interesting technology.
 
We use Navblue and Fusion. Navblue is a good product, but you need it to "talk" to your other programs to make it worthwhile, otherwise you are manually adding basic information to releases and that is very time consuming.

I have no experience with N-track but from what is said here and from demos I've seen it still has a long way to go.
 
Our company got rid of Fusion for N-Tracking. It's absolutely terrible for dispatching. I tell all my coworkers that the GUI of N-Tracking reminds me of something you would see on those hanging monitors in an FBO to show what's inbound to the airport. Having used all three big ASD's between Fusion, Flight Explorer and N-Tracking. I know this won't be a popular opinion. But I believe FE has the easiest functionality. The bar at the top was always a breeze to use. Fusion isn't too far behind but IMO can become very cumbersome with all the layers on the side tabs. The thing I will give Fusion over FE is that graphically it's pretty damn clean. FE needs some major updating in that aspect. You can tell FE was coded for use on Windows 98. However, it's not even a question that N-Tracking is inferior to both of them.

As far as N-FP. I've used Sabre DM, Sabre FPM and NavBlue N-FP. N-FP is pretty powerful when you learn how to harness it's abilities. Maybe it's cause I'm quite a number of years removed from FPM and have forgotten some of it's annoying traits. But I still think I would choose FPM over N-FP. I remember cranking through plans on FPM like no ones business (Sure not like Sabre DM) but for it's powerful abilities I could work quickly with it. Both N-FP and FPM are equally powerful. But in using N-FP I've learned nothing beats actually having the real program in front of you vs having to use a web-based planner like N-FP.
 
PHL_Approach said:
Our company got rid of Fusion for N-Tracking. It's absolutely terrible for dispatching. I tell all my coworkers that the GUI of N-Tracking reminds me of something you would see on those hanging monitors in an FBO to show what's inbound to the airport. Having used all three big ASD's between Fusion, Flight Explorer and N-Tracking. I know this won't be a popular opinion. But I believe FE has the easiest functionality. The bar at the top was always a breeze to use. Fusion isn't too far behind but IMO can become very cumbersome with all the layers on the side tabs. The thing I will give Fusion over FE is that graphically it's pretty damn clean. FE needs some major updating in that aspect. You can tell FE was coded for use on Windows 98. However, it's not even a question that N-Tracking is inferior to both of them.

As far as N-FP. I've used Sabre DM, Sabre FPM and NavBlue N-FP. N-FP is pretty powerful when you learn how to harness it's abilities. Maybe it's cause I'm quite a number of years removed from FPM and have forgotten some of it's annoying traits. But I still think I would choose FPM over N-FP. I remember cranking through plans on FPM like no ones business (Sure not like Sabre DM) but for it's powerful abilities I could work quickly with it. Both N-FP and FPM are equally powerful. But in using N-FP I've learned nothing beats actually having the real program in front of you vs having to use a web-based planner like N-FP.
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When Fusion first started taking over the ASD market a big sale point was the graphics and they still are very good. FE is easier to work back issues, but I'm not sure it has improved graphically. FE started regaining ground when Sabre bought them and offered at a lower price with there suite.

I used Sabre Dispatch Monitor, which was built on Windows 95 and I would gladly take NFP over DM any day. NFP does have to be mastered, but it is far better quality than DM ever was.
 
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