Solution Provider and Consultant to the Air Traffic Management Domain

Harare/Zimbabwe, May 2012 – The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has awarded COMSOFT a contract for the delivery and installation of a fully integrated AIM solution in line with the latest AIXM 5.1 standard. The system will cover the handling of national aeronautical AIXM, NOTAM and FPL data including eAIP and chart production.

The new CADAS AIM system will be fully compatible with “ICAO’s roadmap AIS to AIM” which details the transition requirements for air navigation service providers. The system’s unique AIXM 5.1 database enables the seamless integration of other AIM applications like the eAIP production, supporting the latest EUROCONTROL eAIP 2.0 standard, or the charting tool ACCENT for a data driven and automated chart production. Equipped with this innovative database, the AIM system in Harare will be optimally prepared for the support of future Digital NOTAM applications.

Upon commissioning, Zimbabwe will not only be the first country of the South African Development Community to support AIXM 5, but will operate the region’s most modern AIM system setting the benchmark for quality of ATC-related data.

The new AIM components will be integrated with existing AIS products of the Zimbabwean air navigation service provider who has been operating a COMSOFT system for NOTAM briefing and flight plan management since 2009. Even more time has elapsed since the installation of the first COMSOFT messaging solution in 1997. All systems have met the customer’s expectations entirely prompting CAAZ to put COMSOFT in charge of modernising their ATC infrastructure.

In the process of the installation all related systems will be upgraded to meet ICAO’s flight plan changes in November 2012.

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Malcolm McAdam
PR Manager                            Phone: +49 721 9497-1086

COMSOFT GmbH                          Fax:   +49 721 9497-1019

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