Trip Support

Flight plans. Weather data. Both are some of the most basic needs for business aviation – and both are areas in which Universal® excels. Our specialists cover your trip from planning to completion, no matter where you're based, where you're flying, or the size of your operation.

With Universal, you'll find most everything you need to plan flights and track conditions through one knowledgeable, experienced provider.

• Flight Planning
• UVflightplanner(sm)
• Weather
• Online Weather

Flight Planning

Fuel efficiency, best time to destination, adequate reserves, and safety are your primary considerations when it comes to flight planning. For reliable and accurate flight plans customized to your preferences you can trust our expert flight planning team supported by a 24/7/365 team of meteorologists. Universal offers over 600 individual flight plan formats based on your needs and specifications, as well as:

• Destination, alternate ETOPS, and Equal-Time-Point (ETP) airport weather considerations
• Preferred routing schemes; flight levels; RNP, MNPS, and RVSM airspace; geo-political implications; navigation and communications requirements
• Graphical presentation of routings plotted on weather charts
• Flight plan filing procedures for each country in the world
• European routing schemes, airway slots, and flight plan filing service through the European Operations Centre* at London-Stansted Airport (STN)
• RAD-compliant best winds routings

Pilots can also receive a 24-hour preliminary review of routings, en-route times, and weather.

Click here to view a sample flight plan.

UVflightplanner.com^sm

Save time by computing flight plans in a self-service solution. With UVflightplanner.com, all the information and tools you need most are as close as your laptop or PDA. It's completely Web-based – no software to install and maintain, and you can access it anywhere. You get more than a contact portal – there's immediate access to Universal's world of information, including the ability to create customized weather packages and access to a user friendly but highly sophisticated flight planning engine that optimizes fuel and time based on the performance of your aircraft. And we provide it all affordably, with pricing plans to suit every need.

• Samples
• Demo
• Pricing
• Free Trial Offer
• Customer Care Center
• RAD

Weather

Get global coverage, worldwide access and highly accurate weather from Universal Weather and Aviation, a provider of weather services since 1959. With Universal you get a dedicated team of meteorologists who through expert analysis and customized programming produce accurate worldwide Aviation weather graphics and forecasts.

Universal offers a extensive range of weather service based on your needs and specifications:

• Operational Weather briefings
• Operational Weather updates
• Preliminary Weather Outlooks
• Climatology briefings
• In-flight Alerts
• Passenger weather
• Worldwide weather graphics (route-specific or regional)
• Worldwide textual weather
• Worldwide NOTAMs
• Verbal weather briefings by experienced meteorologists
• In-flight Alerts

Online Weather

Save time by accessing near real-time weather information in a self-service solution. With Universal’s online weather offering you get a trusted name in weather services since 1959 backed by a 24/7/365 customer care center. With this completely Web-based service, you gain customizable access to:

• Aviation weather maps
• Overlay route
• U.S. Radar
• Satellite imagess
• Text weather
• Tropical weather
• Route briefing