SIMMOD News and Accomplishments¹

Date	Links (if available)	Notes
April 2, 2004	NASUG.org	The presentation the FAA Technical Center gave to the NASUG group has been posted on the NASUG.org website. The document contains status information concerning the FAA's current support of the official version of SIMMOD 2.5.
February 24, 2004	ESUG	The European SIMMOD User's Group has redesigned their website. Please take a look. It has some useful SIMMOD links on it.
February 23, 2004	Read more here	AirportTools has released version 1.0 of INMBatch. INMBatch allows you to automate your INM 6.0 (Integrated Noise Model) or later studies for running at off-peak times of the day. INMBatch is designed to work well with the SIMMOD to INM program. It is now possible to modify a SIMMOD node position and have those changes trickle completely through your SIMMOD results and INM results without having to ever manually execute INM.
January 15, 2004	MS Excel format: hotels.xls OpenOffice format: hotels.sxc	ESUG has announced hotel arrangements for the next ESUG conference to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester Great Britain on 29th and 30th April 2004. The note from Peter Crick is as follows: ==================================== Dear ESUG member, First of all a very happy new year to everyone! Please find attached a list of hotels in Manchester for the next ESUG to be held at the Manchester Metropolitan University provided by Niall Gunn. To get the prices quoted here, please say you are attending the ESUG hosted by the University. More details later. Peter Crick ESUG Secretary
January 1, 2004	Read more here	AirportTools has released version 1.0 of the INM to SIMMOD program. The INM to SIMMOD program makes it possible to convert your INM study data into corresponding SIMMOD data.
January 1, 2004	Read more here	AirportTools has released version 1.0 of the SIMMOD to INM program. The SIMMOD to INM program makes it possible to convert your SIMMOD study data into corresponding INM data. It also provides the means to perform this conversion via a batch capability. Thus, you can edit your link-node structure (or flight schedule) in SIMMOD, run the SIMMOD to INM program in batch mode, if necessary, and then find your changed routes (or operations) ready to run in INM 6.0 and later.
November 13, 2003	Read more here	AirportTools has released version 1.1 of the APECS Animator. The 1.1 version includes the following new features: Super quick navigation toolbar. Zoom in and out, center screen, and determine latitude/longitudes with single button clicks. Two new map projections (no more skewed graphics!): INM Compatible Map Projection - A conic projection that duplicates the INM display of map graphics. Very accurate with 100 miles of study center. Miller Equidistant Projection - A varient of the well-known Mercator projection. Aerial/satellite photography support. Runway markings support independent of Visual SIMMOD. Enhanced Vehicle Editor. Several new aircraft icons. Aircraft distance monitoring support.
October 2, 2003	Read more here	AirportTools has released version 1.0 of Visual SIMMOD. Visual SIMMOD is the most advanced SIMMOD data preparation tool available today. Included in Visual SIMMOD is the SIMMOD-In-A-Day techology allowing incredibly rapid prototyping of SIMMOD studies.
October 2, 2003		European SIMMOD Users Group Meeting location and dates: Munich Airport, Germany, 16th and 17th October 2003 starting at 9:00am.
December 12, 2002	Read more here	AirportTools has released version 1.0 of the APECS Animator. The 1.0 version includes several bug fixes and most importantly is no longer a time limited release. Importantly, this version includes support for reading INM radar files.
November 18, 2002		European SIMMOD Users Group Meeting location and dates announcement per Peter Crick's email: Dear All, Advance notice for your diaries! Aeroports De Paris have kindly offered to host the next ESUG meeting at Charles de Gaulle Airport starting on Thursday 24th April 2003 at 9:00 and continuing on Friday 25th. A visit round the airport is also being planned and a boat trip on the Seine on the Thursday evening has also been proposed. More details nearer the date. Peter Crick ESUG Secretary
October 18, 2002	agenda_oct_2002.doc	European SIMMOD Users Group Conference Agenda Announcement on October 24th and 25th- Per Peter Crick's e-mail: Dear All, Please find attached the draft Agenda for the meeting next week. The address of Andersen's offices in Turin is: Andersen MBA Galleria San Federico ,54 10121 Torino Italy Marco tells me it is not too late if you want to go on the airport visit early Thursday evening but you must forward a scan of your passport or fax a copy to Ms. Federica Bondi immediately (tel: +39 011 554 8233, fax: +39 011 55 48 277) for security reasons. An evening dinner is being arranged after the airport visit in town. See you next week. Peter Crick Secretary ESUG Peter R. Crick Airport R&D Coordinator, Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, BP 15, 91222 Bretigny sur Orge Cedex France Tel: + 33 (0) 1 69 88 75 58 Fax: + 33 (0) 1 69 88 72 11
August 28, 2002		European SIMMOD Users Group Conference Announcement on October 24th and 25th- Per Peter Crick's e-mail: Dear All, There was an Action for us all from the last meeting in Cologne to make suggestions for updating the Terms of Reference - I have attached the current ones to this message. At the last meeting, Wolfgang Hatzack asked if anyone could give an Expert Workshop session on "Towing". Does anybody feel they would like to do this either for the next meeting or for another future one? Reminder: The next ESUG meeting will be held on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th October starting at 9:00 on the 24th in the offices of Andersen Italia which are situated at:- Galleria San Federico, 54 10121 Torino Italia More information on hotels, etc. nearer the date. Best regards Peter
July 11, 2002	Reference Manual	An updated set of SIMMOD Reference Manual Documents has been placed on AirportTools' website. All of the graphics have been recreated so that they can be printed in a legible fashion. StarOffice Impress versions (vector based) of the graphics are available as well.
June 18, 2002	SIMMOD Spoolup capability added.	For those who haven't noticed, SIMMOD has been enabled with spoolup time on airfield links. The flat-file documentation has been upgraded for this change as well. Each AFLINKS card now has a SpoolupDlyDist field which is an optional integer field. The integer SpoolupDlyDist field indicates the PROBDIST record which details how long an aircraft should spoolup after stopping on the airfield. The SpoolupDlyDist is not applicable where the aircraft stopped for a runway crossing. Runway crossing spoolup delay is accounted for in the RWYCROSS card. Spoolup delay is accounted for by the HU and FU codes in the SIMU26 history file.
May 18, 2002	SIMMOD Group	A SIMMOD discussion group has been created on Yahoo! Groups. Everyone interested in SIMMOD and aviation planning are encouraged to participate. Note: You must have a free account with Yahoo! before you can participate in this discussion group.
May 7, 2002	www.NASUG.org	For those who cannot access the NASUG website a partially archived copy has been placed on a mirror site at http://www.NASUG.org.
April 10, 2002	Go To Description Page	Daniel Webster College has an Aviation Management program which utilizes SIMMOD in it's coursework. Click on the link to the left to see a more thorough discussion of their program.
March 15, 2002		The North American SIMMOD Users Group meeting was hosted by PB Aviation, Inc in Cincinnati Ohio. The meeting was well attended and it is foreseen that the next meeting will be the third week of September of 2002 in the Northern Virginia area.
March 8, 2002	agenda_march15_02.doc agenda_march15_02.rtf	Per Toni Trani's email the agenda for the NASUG meeting.
February 20, 2002	NEXscape	NEXscape - Issue # 15 available. See link to the left.
February 20, 2002		European SIMMOD Users Group Conference Announcement on April 18th and 19th- Per Peter Crick's e-mail: Dear All, It had to be too good to be true! Johannes was unfortunately quoted last year's rate at the Holiday Inn Aiport Hotel at Cologne! The current rate is EUR 82,00 (single), EUR 117,00 (double) plus EUR 15,00 for breakfast. Johannes has arranged a visit to UPS during the night and is hoping to arrange a visit to the Tower as well. Anyone interested is asked to please send him by fax ( +49 2202 862270 ) or e-mail (Johannes Ehmanns) a scan of their passport for the usual security reasons by 15/3/02. He is also thinking of arranging a boat trip on the Rhine on the Saturday. Return could be arranged either to Cologne or Frankfurt. If you are interested could you please contact Johannes direct. More details later. Peter
February 19, 2002		European SIMMOD Users Group Conference Announcement - Per Peter Crick's e-mail: Dear All, Johannes has managed to obtain UPS rates at the Holiday Inn Airport Hotel, Cologne for the upcoming ESUG meeting. It is about a 15 min walk from UPS' offices where the meeting is to take place. The rate is EUR 56,25 (including breakfast) which seems very reasonable to me! To avoid disappointment, Johannes advises us to book as early as possible. When booking, mention you are there for the ESUG meeting to get this rate. Holiday Inn Airport Hotel Cologne Tel: +49 2203 5610 Fax: +49 2203 5619 Johannes also needs a copy of our passports (by e-mail or fax) for those of us wishing to participate in the airport visits. Looking forward to seeing you all soon, Peter
February 2, 2002	Word Doc: nasug_march15_2002.doc StarOffice Doc: nasug_march15_2002.sdw	North American SIMMOD Users Group Conference Announcement - Per Toni Trani's e-mail: Colleagues: This is an invitation to the next North American Simmod User's Group Meeting. Information on hotels is enclosed in this email. If you have any questions please contact me or Chuanwen Quan. PB Inc. is hosting the meeting in Cincinnati.
December 17, 2001	manchester.doc	Provided by Niall Gunn, the MS-Word document reviews Manchester Airport's (in the United Kingdom) usage of SIMMOD since 1990. Please take note of the very successful application of SIMMOD to the opening of a new runway at the airport on February 5th, 2001.