Polaris Aero’s VOCUS FlightRisk Now Available for Collins Aerospace’s ARINCDirect Flight Support Services

Polaris Aero has renewed its agreement with Collins Aerospace to make VOCUS FlightRisk available to all subscribers of Collins’ ARINCDirect flight planning tools. This extension builds upon a successful relationship spanning more than 10 years, seamlessly incorporating FlightRisk’s premier preflight risk assessment functionality with ARINCDirect’s leading flight support services.

Through this collaboration, ARINCDirect flight planning customers also benefit from VOCUS FlightRisk’s advanced capabilities in analyzing critical pilot, environmental, aircraft, and airfield risk factors. VOCUS FlightRisk’s rules engine analyzes each flight’s unique risks and provides relevant advisories, transforming raw data into actionable insights. With these tools, schedulers, dispatchers, pilots, and managers are empowered to make more informed and, ultimately, safer decisions.

“VOCUS FlightRisk serves as an ideal preflight risk control, offering a crucial first step towards ensuring successful and safe missions,” added Chris Connor, CEO of Polaris Aero.

Customers utilizing VOCUS FlightRisk benefit from:

  • Proactive decision-making: automated alerts provide warnings about potential hazards early in the flight planning process.
  • Facilitates regulatory compliance: custom advisories ensure compliance with applicable policies and regulations.
  • Automated insights: real-time dashboards display types and locations of hazards.

This renewed collaboration between Collins Aerospace and Polaris Aero underscores their shared commitment to enhancing safety and operational efficiency within the aviation industry.

Kim Stevens

Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.