Volume 114 | Tuesday, June 3, 2025

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Enhanced Flight Safety and Efficiency with FlightRisk Integration 

Welcome back to Jump Seat. The amount of pre-flight data that you are tasked with reviewing ahead of a trip can be daunting. At the same time, it’s important to stay on top of crucial details like NOTAMs, airport runways, Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs), crew restrictions, and weather. To navigate these constant changes, we offer Polaris Aero’s VOCUS FlightRisk, an advanced risk assessment tool that automates the mundane data consumption and processing involved in flight preparation. 

The VOCUS FlightRisk application is integrated with ARINCDirect and is included with an ARINCDirect flight planning subscription. This allows you to compute a flight risk alongside any flight plan and subsequently update that assessment when changes are made to your flight plan.  


ARINCDirect Integration 


When a new flight plan is created on the CreateFPL page and the FlightRisk Summary or FlightRisk Detailed checkbox is selected, ARINCDirect will send an automated request to FlightRisk to produce an output report containing risk assessment results. This report is attached to the ARINCDirect flight plan and also available for viewing in the ARINCDirect iPad App. 


Certain updates to flight plans (i.e. city pair, alternates, ETD) will also automatically generate a request for an updated risk assessment version from FlightRisk. The action of filing a flight plan will generate a request for an updated assessment as well, to include the names of the PIC and SIC, if available. 


Alternatively, the VOCUS FlightRisk tool can be accessed directly via the application tile on the Izon dashboard or via the Safety tab within the ARINCDirect website. These single sign-on experiences allow you to access the VOCUS application with additional features.  


Other VOCUS FlightRisk Benefits 


  • Automation of Key Processes: Automate tasks like crewing, operational and customer requirement checks, and restriction management. 
  • Significant Time Savings: Reduce time spent looking up and processing flight information from hours to seconds. 
  • Enhanced Safety: Embed critical operational risk controls to ensure consistency and continuous improvement. 
  • Seamless Integration: VOCUS FlightRisk integrates with ARINCDirect Flight Planning and numerous aviation scheduling systems, allowing the risk assessment process to begin as soon as a flight is entered and refreshing as you progress through the planning phase within ARINCDirect. Identifying hazards early enables better risk mitigation and a higher likelihood of mission success. 
  • Real-time Information Delivery: Ensure critical safety information reaches the right personnel as early as possible in the preflight process; ultimately showing up in the web based ARINCDirect flight plan, or as a document attachment in the ARINCDirect iPad App. 

Did You Know?

  • To provide these safety tools that enhance your operation, we have partnered with Polaris Aero since 2011. 
  • Polaris Aero offers a safety management system, VOCUS SMS, that can be added to your subscription.  

Useful Links

  • To learn more about Polaris Aero, our partner in safety-related tools, please navigate to their website
  • Want more guidance on how to access these tools? Click here for step-by-step instructions.