These apps below are just a few that I have built for Textron Aviation. Some are on the App Store for our customers, others are enterprise apps that we use internally, distributed out through our own managed store. All of my apps for iOS are built natively using Xcode and designed by me.
All apps use Multi-Factor Authentication, as well as optional Face/Touch ID. App technology ranges from low level bluetooth, barometric readings, connecting directly to diagnostic devices on aircraft, FAA approved Takeoff and Landing calculations, PDF generation, and a host of other live Fault Push Notifications and Text/Email notifications, automatic WiFi connection, and batch syncing data when online. Across all companies and apps, total downloads exceed 1 million.
I also have experience in C# creating the API endpoints for all of the applications using JSON
Textron Aviation Service
(Copyright Textron Aviation)
A consolidated Service Directory App for Cessna, Beechcraft, and Hawker customers. Quickly access support members and view all locations of Service Centers, Authorized Facilities, and MSUs. Added is the ability to rate Service Centers, Centers get grouped together if they're within a certain distance of each other, and updates when the user has time, allowing you to call and access numbers immediately and refresh at your convenience.
This app is now the one stop shop for everything Service related. We can send you customized push notifications, download and manage AReS II blackbox diagnostic data, register, and download files related to conference sessions. View and pay your invoices directly from the app.
Service Management allows you to approve or deny work requests, view status, request aircraft service, and see photos of the issues. You can also approve scheduling for your aircraft and receive push notifications when a new work item needs approval.
AReS diagnostics tool allows you to connect to our aircraft, view diagnostic files, download them directly to your device, and then send them to Textron Aviation.
This allows you to diagnose issues with your aircraft if it is stuck in a remote location and provide Textron Aviation with your data within minutes
LinxUs tool allows you access to all faults within the last 30 days. You will even receive a notification when a fault occurs in flight.
One click and you can send the fault directly to 1Call with all information provided, and a representative will start working your issue immediately.
The tool also provides options to select which faults you want to be notified for and even view the location of where the fault occurred.
Tire Pressure
The first Bluetooth sensor FAA approved for business aviation, is completely configured and managed by this app. Set up, pull values, view historical readings, and even wipe the sensor to store on a shelf.
The app even allows for firmware updates to the sensors themselves, ensuring the latest updates for the life of the product.
Textron Aviation Cesnav
(Copyright Textron Aviation)
I took 3 separate apps and combined them, recreating their entire user interface experience, and added enhancements such as sharing calculations across all 3 calculators, and a unified results screen. The app offers weight and balance, to performance takeoff, and flight planning.
These apps pull in weather data to see if takeoff or landing is possible from the current runway and obstacles. Features include electronically signing PDFs for your flight data, plot and plan an entire trip, to configuring how many people are riding in your aircraft.
Caravan configuration allows you to drag and drop to reconfigure your aircraft seating. Add or remove cargo zones. The tool automatically creates a new Continuous History chart and generates a new weight and balance file for you to test with to see if the changed seats will fit within your flight envelope
Patent Pending
Textron Aviation
1View
(Copyright Textron Aviation)
A complete rewrite and combination of 3 previous apps, Beechcraft Technical Publications, Cessna Flight, and Cesview for a brand new interface, 1 app for the entire company across Flight and Maintenance. The app works directly with 1View online, and syncs bookmarks, annotations, history, and allows for 1View to be automatically opened from the app.
Features include a 90% increase in update speeds, thumbnail generation and speed. The original pdf viewer supported all bookmarks and links within PDFs that out performed Firefox's standards. However, with the introduction of iOS 11, the viewer now is supported by Apple's PDFView, even though there are a few links that Apple doesn't support, the viewer is much faster and more stable. Link Accounts, View Subscription status, receive updates, and 1 click access to Service info and 1View online.
The combination of Apple's PDFViewer to render, and then the custom book tabs, and page tabs, which give the option to have multiple pages opened in the same PDF, or having multiple PDFs opened across books and instantly switch between them, creates a unique user experience for the customer. Navigation allows for a crumb trail to go back and forth instantly when clicking on links within the PDF. Optionally view 2 pages at once, and supports iPhone as well
The Checkin app is used across 50+ Service Center locations and Security entrances to record Customer entries. Badges are assigned, accounts created to manage who is on site.
The app sends texts to General Managers and Customer Contacts to be notified when their guest arrives.
The Employee Checkin app allows Security to scan any employee to pull back information. It is used to track attendance at events, manage open houses to get total count, supports special fundraising events for raffles.
The app supports Mustering, cross referencing who has entered a building to know who is unaccounted for incase of an emergency. Users are scanned from the app to be marked as safe.
The app supports restricted access to a temporary location incase of emergency events.
It also supports scanning and notifying employees of new reassignments and handling bargaining relationships.
The app also supported Covid questionnaire, to know who was allowed on site, allowing safe working operations of Guests and Employees during this time.
PFI allows for pilots to run through a series of checklists when flying. All data is recorded and synced back for the shop floor to assess the information. Images/Audio/Video are recorded and a history of communication is recorded on each inspection.
The app uses the barometer to have a built in altimeter, recording the current elevation and vertical feet per minute calculations
iSquawks allows for customers to add comments and sign off on their aircraft all from the app. Increasing productivity when inspecting their final walkthrough of an aircraft.
Video/Images/Comments and history are all recorded
Paint
(Copyright Beechcraft Corporation)
An enterprise app that allows for owners to choose their aircraft and view any configuration of paint scheme. You can choose from all colors that are standard, or even create a custom color for their aircraft. Multiple designs can be saved and then emailed to the back office and the customer.
Paint schemes are rendered in real time, base images are layered and stacked ontop of each other, each having a reference to which layer or other stripes each is tied to. When a new color is added, each stripe image is re-rendered.
Technical Publications (Replaced by 1View above)
(Copyright Beechcraft Corporation)
A comprehensive app that allows users to log in securely, download and view Flight Manuals and Maintenance Libraries on their iPads. The app allows for full Table of Content navigation, support for section based annotations, full range of searching, as well as support for bookmarking.
On top of those features, the app syncs the downloaded manuals to notify the user when an update is available or if their subscription has expired.
Global Customer Support Directory (Replaced by Service above)
(Copyright Beechcraft Corporation)
An app that allows aircraft owners to quickly view the closest service center based on their location, allows ability to call or write email from within the app. Content refreshes keeps most up to date information on contacts for the owner's current region.
(Copyright Textron Aviation)
An enterprise app for flight inspectors. This app allows for quick data collection for issues with aircraft. Videos, pictures, notes, filtered dropdowns are collected and synced across multiple devices and work in a disconnected state. Once synced, very detailed reports can be run, finding patterns in issues related to production, assembly, or post work.
All checklists are dynamically created from the server, so settings, updates, and new content are dynamically changed without touching the app.
iSquawks
