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AROWEB - USERGUIDE CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION ... 2
1.1 How to use this guide ... 2
1.2 Questions, error reporting and support ... 2
2 OVERVIEW OF AROWEB ... 3
2.1 Navigation ... 3
2.2 Log-in ... 3
2.3 Home view ... 4
3 USING AROWEB ... 6
3.1 Register a new user ... 6
3.2 Logging in ... 7
3.3 Forgot password ... 8
3.4 Change user information ... 9
4 WORKING WITH FLIGHTPLANS ... 10
4.1 Send new flightplan ... 10
4.2 Send test flight plan ... 10
4.3 Import flightplan... 11
4.4 Read flightplan response ... 13
4.5 SMS notification of flightplan response ... 15
4.6 Cancel flightplan ... 15
4.7 Delay flightplan ... 15
4.8 Using templates ... 16
4.8.1 Create flightpath templates ... 16
4.8.2 Create aircraft templates ... 17
5 MET ... 18 7 SETTINGS ... 18 7.1 My settings ... 18 8 ABBREVIATIONS ... 19 9 SYMBOLS ... 20 10 SYSTEM OVERVIEW ... 21
1 INTRODUCTION Welcome to AROWeb
AROWeb is LFV’s Internet-based system for selfbriefing. The system is incorporated into LFV’s information service in Sweden. Pilots and others involved in flight operations can use AROWeb to send their flight plan to FPC for forwarding. Flightplans that are sent via AROWeb are checked, after which response to the flight plan is obtained by the customer in the form of an ACK message (approved flightplan) or an REJ message
(flightplan not approved). Via AROWeb there is also access to AIS and MET information from FPC´s operating systems.
Connection to AROWeb can be made from a computer or a mobile device with an Internet connection. The web browsers that have been used to verify current version of AROWeb is stated on the bottom of all pages. 1.1 How to use this guide
The goal of this user guide is not to explain every field and function in detail. Instead, the focus is on describing the various user situations you will encounter.
1 Start by learning the conventions that are used to describe commands, functions, etc.
2 Then, learn how a flight plan is processed before you get a response from AROWeb. The system overview gives a good picture of how AROWeb communicates with you and surrounding systems. 3 Look at the description of symbols to learn the graphic status
symbols for a flight plan.
4 Read the section: Overview of AROWeb. This will give you a general description of navigation and interface.
5 Finally, the various user cases for AROWeb are described in the chapter Using AROWeb. You can use this chapter as a reference when you are working with AROWeb.
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2 OVERVIEW OF AROWEB
The AROWeb interface is structured to be as intuitive as possible. After logging in, you will always be working in one window, which gives you quick access via rows of buttons above the work surface to various sections and functions of AROWeb.
2.1 Navigation
After logging in, AROWeb has a flat architecture where you always reach all functions from one main window.
2.2 Log-in
You reach AROWeb via the LFV home page or the direct link
http://www.aro.lfv.se/
1. Select language
Here you affect the language setting for the entire AROWeb. You can change language regardless of what you are working on in AROWeb at the current time.
2. Change to mobilversion
3. Log-in
You fill in your user information here to get access to all pages in AROWeb.
4. Forgot password
Click here to generate a new password.
5. Register new user
Click here to open a new user account.
2.3 Home view
1. Home
News and general information about AROWeb are displayed here. 2. MET
Here, you will find current meteorological information for Sweden, the Nordic region and Europe, e.g., current weather and predictions for airports, low-altitude prognoses and weather maps.
3. AIS
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6. News
FPC publishes news here that may affect air traffic. 7. Contact us
Here, you can send e-mail to the watch supervisor at FPC, for example in the event of problems with log-in or other questions about the functions on AROWeb.
8. User guide
Link to the user guide. 9. Settings
Here, you can change the user information you provided when you registered. This is also where you can change your password. 10. Log out
Click here to log out from AROWeb. 11. Change to mobilversion
Click on this link to go the mobilversion of AROWeb 12. Logged-in user
3 USING AROWEB
The purpose of this chapter is to provide support to you when you are actively working with AROWeb.
3.1 Register a new user
To register yourself as a user of AROWeb: Click on Register, which you will find on the main page. A user agreement will come up. An
agreement between you as user and LFV as supplier will be displayed. Read through this document and approve it, after you have read and accept the terms of use. Then click on Save.
Enter your user information; mandatory fields will be marked in red if they are not completed. Also consider entering the telephone number with + followed by country code, followed by the number without the initial zero, e.g., +4687976340. Then click on Save.
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Check the inbox in the e-mail account you provided at registration. Then follow the instructions in the activation e-mail message that was sent to you from AROWeb.
3.2 Logging in
When you log in to AROWeb you provide your Username and Password and click on Login.
3.3 Forgot password
If you have forgotten your password, you obtain a new password from AROWeb by clicking on Forgot your password? The password will be sent to the e-mail address you provided at registration or via SMS.
Click on Forgot password in the upper right, by the login:
Enter your username. Then click on OK, which sends AROWeb the new temporary password via e-mail or via SMS, if you checked Send SMS copy in the dialogue box. When you have received the new password, go to Settings to choose your own password, just as you did when you registered.
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3.4 Change user information
Under Settings, you can change or add to the information you provided at registration.
4 WORKING WITH FLIGHTPLANS 4.1 Send new flightplan
• Go to the Flightplan page
To create a new flight plan, click on New. A blank flightplan form will then be displayed in parts in the middle of the window. When you click in the field, you will always get help with how the various fields in the flight plan should be completed on the right-hand side.
• Each part of the flightplan must have a green check before you will be able to submit the flight plan. You do this under preview and send (airplane icon). AROWeb validates the information you enter and if necessary, will encourage you to correct or complete data. Please note that flight plans must be submitted well before take-off. For IFR, this means at least 60 minutes before EOBT and for VFR at least 30 minutes.
The flight plan will now appear on the list of Unanswered flightplans. See section 4.4, Read flightplan response.
4.2 Send test flight plan
You can test your IFR flightplan before you submit your final flightplan with the function Send test flightplan (paper airplane icon). The flightplan will then be sent to IFPUV where it will be checked and returned to AROWeb.
Submitting a test flightplan is done the same way as for a regular flightplan, except that after you have filled out the flightplan form you click on Send test flightplan. You may then submit an approved test flight plan like a regular flight plan:
• Mark the approved test flightplan in Answered flightplans and then click
on Create flightplan
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4.3 Import flightplan
You can also import a finished “ATS flightplan” (according to the ICAO standard format) created in a fligh plan programme. Go to the
Flightplan page.
By clicking on Import ATS,a new page will now come up with a text box where you can paste in an ATS-FPL, which you have already created in your operating flightplan programme.
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4.4 Read flightplan response
Normally, you read your flightplan response under Flightplan but you can also see and open unread flightplan responses from the Letter icon.
To check responses to flight plans, click on Answered flightplans under flightplan to bring up a list. The flightplans you have not yet checked are marked in bold type in the list. For a description of the various icons, see chapter 9, Symbols. The description shows in a simple manner what type of response you have received to the various flightplans.
• Mark the flight plan you are interested in by clicking in the list. The flight plan will now be displayed to the right.
1 Copy flightplan
Here, you make a copy of the flightplan 2.Print out flightplan
Here, you print out your flightplan 3. Archive
Here, you archive a selected flightplan
In the list of Answered flightplans, you can also “hide” flightplans that are
you are no longer interested in:
• Mark the flightplan you want to remove from the list • Click on the Archive box.
The flight plan will now disappear from the list Answered flightplans. If you
remove a flightplan in error, it is possible to recover it by calling FPC. 4. Cancel flightplan, see section 4.6, Cancel flightplan
Here, you cancel your flightplan
5. Delay, see section 4.7, Delay flightplan Here, you delay your flightplan
6.See history
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4.5 SMS notification of flightplan response
AROWeb has a built-in SMS function that you can use to follow-up responses from FPC. To use this function, you complete the field: Phone number for FPL SMS reply. If you click on the Use default link, the SMS
number which you registered in your profile will be entered.
The response gives a brief description of status obtained on submitted flightplan. This means that you do not need to wait by your computer for the go-ahead. At FPL_ACK, no further control is required of the flight plan. FPL_LONG_ACK and FPL_VFR_ACK do require however that you go to AROWeb and check the response from FPC/IFPS.
4.6 Cancel flightplan
To cancel a flight plan click on Answered flightplans under flightplan to retrieve the list of answered flightplans.
• Mark the flight plan you want to cancel by clicking in the list. • Click on Cancel (one-way icon). You will be asked whether you
really want to cancel the flightplan. Click OK and await response. To check the answer, the same approach is used as under section 4.4,
Read flightplan response and/or 4.5, SMS notification of flightplan
response.
4.7 Delay flightplan
To delay a flightplan, click on Answered flightplans under flightplan to retrieve a list of answered flightplans. EOBT must be 10 minutes ahead in time.
• Mark the flightplan you want to delay by clicking in the list. To the right, the most recent incoming response to the flightplan you marked is presented.
• Click on Time. Enter EOBT.
• Click on Send (airplane icon) and await a response.
Please note that DLA should not be used in AROWeb to delay a flightplan from one day to another. First, cancel (CNL) the flightplan and then submit a new one with updated date of flight (DOF). Contact FPC if the flightplan is affected by flow restrictions (ATFM).
To check the answer, you will use the same approach as under section 4.4, Read flightplan response and/or 4.5, SMS notification of fligh plan response.
4.8 Using templates
You can create profiles for aircraft and/or flightpaths, i.e., AROWeb can save information about aircraft and flightpaths that are often used. This makes it easier when you are going to fill out a flightplan — you only need to enter a few pieces of information before you submit your flightplan.
You can save profiles separately for aircraft and flightpaths. You then have the option of combining these.
4.8.1 Create flightpath templates
To create a flightpath template from scratch, be sure you are under Flightplan.
• Click on Flightpath under using templates. • A form will appear in the middle of the window. • Fill out the fields.
To the right of the form a help text is displayed like the one that is displayed when you fill out a flightplan.
In the Name field you enter a name in free text.
• Then click on Save (diskette icon).
The new flight path template will now appear in the list above with the name you provided.
You can then edit saved templates by marking what you want to change on the list; click on the pen; change the form; and then save the
template again.
You can remove templates by marking a template on the list and then clicking on the trash barrel.
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4.8.2 Create aircraft templates
To create an air navigation template from scratch, ensure you are under Flightplan.
• Click on Air navigation.
A form will appear in the middle of the window. • Fill out the fields
To the right of the form, a help text will be displayed like the one that is displayed when you fill out a flight plan.
• Then click on Save (diskette icon).
The new air navigation template will appear in the list above.
You can then edit saved templates by marking what you want to change on the list; click on the pen; change the form; and then save the
template again.
You can remove templates by marking a template on the list and then clicking on the trash barrel.
5 MET
In the flight plan, there is a button with a cloud and a sun, which you can use if you quickly want to check METAR and TAF for the airports included in the flight plan. You must be logged into AROWeb to get access to the radar map and quick search of METAR and TAF.
7 SETTINGS
7.1 My settings
Here you can change your user settings/password whenever you want. The only item that cannot be changed is your username.
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8 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviation Definition
ACK IFPS Acknowledgment Message AIS Flight Briefing Service
ARO ATS Report Site
ATFM Air Traffic Flow Management ATS Air Navigation Service BO Briefing Officer
CFMU Central Flow Management Unit CNL Cancellation Message
DLA Delay Message
FPC Flight Planning Centre FPL Flight Plan Message
IFPS Integrated Initial Flight Plan Processing System IFPUV IFPS Validation System
IFR Instrument Flight Rules MET Meteorology
NOTAM Notice to Airmen REJ IFPS Rejection Message SMS Short Message Service VFR Visual Flight Rules
9 SYMBOLS
Flightplan submitted:Awaiting response
Flightplan accepted without comment
Flightplan accepted with comment
IFR flightplan NOT accepted
VFR flightplan NOT accepted
DLA submitted. Awaiting response
DLA accepted
DLA NOT accepted
CNL submitted. Awaiting response
CNL accepted
CNL NOT accepted. Flightplan still valid Test flightplan (only IFR) submitted
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10 SYSTEM OVERVIEW
AROWeb communicates with the Swedish main system for flightplanning, SIGMA-ARO. In the SIGMA-ARO, a check of the submitted flightplan is performed. Then, the IFR flightplan is sent to IFPS. After processing by IFPS, the flightplan is returned via SIGMA-ARO to AROWeb. VFR
flightplans are processed by BO operators in SIGMA-ARO and are then returned to AROWeb.
MET and NOTAM compilations are automatically entered into AROWeb and updated regularly.
Under the Information and News headings, FPC´s system administrators publish general information and current news.
Revision list:
Rev Date Edited by Information about change/addition
09.00 2014-05-12 Magnus Lundström New updated version 10.00 2014-11-25 Ulrica Nilsson New updated version 11.00 2015-06-03 Peter Hult New updated version
