Travel$ense User's Guide (PDF, 139 MB) - NBAA

TRAVEL$ENSELEG DEAD TIME33Leg Dead Time is the number of nonproductive minutes per leg of enrouteflight time that is counted by Travel$ense as completely unproductive.This is the time spent at the beginning of every flight on getting situated:walking onto the aircraft, finding a seat, stowing luggage and materials in asecure location, doffing jackets, etc. It includes take-off roll and that time at thebeginning of every flight during climb-out when the unusual flight attitude of theaircraft is distracting.At the end of every flight Leg Dead Time includes stowing materials inpreparation for landing, approach and landing.This estimate includes both time at the beginning and end of every flight and isspecified by class for airliners and separately for business aircraft. This time issubtracted equally from the start and end of enroute flight times duringcalculations for Offsetting Value of Productive Time Enroute, Productive HoursSaved and Value of Productive Hours Saved.LEG TAXI TIME INCLUDED IN ETENEW T$3FEATURENew in Release 3 is the ability to set the leg taxi time included in the ETE.Previously this time had been fixed at five minutes at each end. Thus the ETEscalculated by Travel$ense, and ETE imported from flight department software,included 10 minutes of taxi time. You now can set this default as you wish. In noevent does this affect the Cost of Air Services, as hourly costs are per flighthour and taxi time always areexcluded.MINIMUM TIME TO CREATE SITE TIMETravel$ense automatically determines from the schedule input which legs havesite time with the prior leg (i.e., a meeting) and which legs involve a layover,dropping-off or picking-up passengers only. This assignment is critical to creatingan accurate comparable airline trip automatically.For example, if the business aircraft travels from city A to city B simply to pickupa passenger and then deliver that passenger to city C, the comparable airlinetrip is from B to C, not from A to B and then from B to C.This default time determines the minimum time, excluding the default drivetime and processing times given above, that generates a site visit. For example,with this value set at 45 and processing and drive times (both ways) having atotal of 60 minutes, a site visit is generated if there is more than 105 minutesdifference between arrival time this leg and departure time for the next leg.At any time you can override this default using the Review Meetings ScheduleScreen. You might need to do this if a site visit is particularly short (e.g. briefCopyright © 1999, National Business Aviation Association, Inc.