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AMEXSY general

Updated20. February 2025

Clicking the AMEXY icon on the Home Tab opens the AMEXSY viewer. If the arrow is clicked a choice of which account to display is shown.
A subsequent click will display that information for the account.

AMEXSY (AFTN Message Exchange System) allows PPS users to file flight plans directly to the AFTN network.

Live / test option

Two Flight Plan lists are available, Live and Test, corresponding to flight plans sent to the CFMU live system or the CFMU test system (selected by transmitting/uploading).

Important: Do not upload a FPL to AMEXSY test system with a flight number you later will use in the Live system, as you will not be able to file the flight in the Live system afterwards.

Time frame

It is possible to select the timeframe you wish to use, as per the image below:

  • Previous 2, Next 6 Hrs – Previous 2 Hours & next 6 Hours.
  • Today – All flights from Midnight to Midnight UTC Today.
  • Tomorrow – All flights past Midnight until Midnight the following day.
  • Next 24 Hrs – From present time until 24 Hours in the future.
  • Recent – Last 24 Hrs.
  • Any Period – Last 48 Hours and up to 5 days ahead.

The results of timeframe selection will show the filed ATC plans and their status.

Status colours

Four different status-colours are used in the left-hand column ‘Status’ of the AMEXSY window.

  • Ack – FPL acknowledged (ACK) received.
  • Sent – Message Sent meaning that the reply is currently missing.
  • Rej/Not sent – FPL Rejected (REJ) or not sent.
  • CTOT – CTOT received from CFMU.
  • Pending – Message is Pending.

In the right-hand side of the of the AMEXSY table (image above) there is a blank column. If the following icon is shown it indicates that the route filed to AMEXSY and the route uploaded to the operational Flight Plan on Crewbriefing.com are not identical.

  • If there is a flashing status-dot then no one in your company has acknowledged the new message.
  • Acknowledgement of seeing the response is automatically given in the system when you click on a specific flight.
  • When you click on a flight, the corresponding messages for this flight will be shown in the bottom part of the AMEXSY window. The user can see the FPL that has been sent and the reply(s) from Euro control.
  • If the user hovers the mouse over the Text field, then a box will be shown with the content as in the example below.

Alternatively, the user can double click on an item and the text will be shown as well with the following example.

Re-routing / route proposal

If you receive a re-routing or route proposal from the CFMU this can easily be copied from the FPL viewer to PPS by doing the following. Right click on the message containing the re-routing and click copy route.

When you receive a long ACK from Eurocontrol you will have the possibility to Right Click the message to get further options shown below.

Copy Route

Copies the ATC string to your computer clipboard and give the option to paste into a new window (e.g. Notepad, SITA, Email, PPS, etc.)

New PPS Flight

When choosing this option, the ATC string is copied along with all of the previous information from the original PPS calculated route, and will automatically be pasted into a new PPS Flight Plan. NOT SUPPORTED in the PPS 8 Windows version.

What’s this

Will give you an explanation regarding the message type shown. It is not only the ACK messages which contain these explanations. All message types received by Eurocontrol will have the “What’s this” option.

Print Preview

Opens the message written to a PDF file.

At the bottom right, you have two buttons: Print Preview & Refresh.
Refresh – will update the list, an automatic refresh is done every second minute.
Print Preview – collects all the messages concerning the selected flight into one PDF document and will display it onscreen for printing/saving etc.

Notifications

NOTE! This will only be displayed if the function is enabled in “Other Settings” under the AMEXSY SETTINGS menu explained earlier in this manual.

This message announces if there are flights uploaded to CrewBriefing which has not been filed to an appropriate ATC unit.
Clicking on the message will display a similar window:

NOTE! ONLY flights uploaded to CrewBriefing within the range -2/+20 Hrs. from STD which have not been filed via AMEXSY will appear in this window. All other flights outside this period will not activate the Notification.

Notifications will stay in the window until either the flight has been filed via AMEXSY or until the tick box “Disregard” has been ticked and OK has been clicked.