Welcome to our regular Avinet newsletter where our aim is to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments to the Air Maestro system and related information from customers and team.

Since our previous newsletter we have significantly expanded our operations and introduced a number of new features within Air Maestro and released a version for rail operators called Rail Maestro.

We have increased our customer base within Australia and internationally and continue to assist our customers to meet regulatory compliance by addressing key areas. Air Maestro provides solutions for rostering and work practice controls integrating Fatigue Risk Management (FRMS), recency management and provides Safety Management System (SMS) capabilities in the audit, occurrence reporting and hazard / risk management areas. The feedback we continue to receive is that Air Maestro provides enhanced capabilities on both operational and safety management aspects which are fully integrated in one system which is easily accessible and easy to use.

In late 2009 we were pleased to find out that Avinet had been selected as a finalist in the Top 20 South Australian Innovative companies for its Air Maestro product. We were very proud to be selected in this group of companies.

New Appointment

We are proud to announce that Mike Mulvihill has taken up the role as Chief Executive Officer. Mike joined the team in November 2009. Mike has an extensive commercial experience and his expertise will help us to continue to manage our service delivery and continuing growth.

UK Expansion Update

We are now delivering support on the Air & Rail Maestro systems in the UK via our established partnerships with specialists in fatigue risk management Clockwork Research and safety management specialists SMS Aero located in the UK. Our partners are currently delivering and supporting customers using Air & Rail Maestro in the UK and Europe. As a result our UK hosted data centre environment is now fully operational with a number of new customers running from this environment. Our UK hosted data centre will allow us to service customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.

From the Development Team

In December we deployed release 2.3 of Air Maestro which included document library access control and a scheduling prototype. We have been canvassing interested customers for feedback and ideas from the scheduling prototype and are looking to progress this area towards a fully functional module.

We will shortly commence the final testing and deployment of release 2.4 of Air & Rail Maestro. The new release contains a number of new enhancements requested from customers and updates to new modules recently introduced to the system. Detailed below is more information on the new enhancements added to the system in our upcoming release. Our testing of Release 2.4 has already commenced and should be completed towards the end of March in preparation for deployment.

What’s on the cards

During March some of the team will be working in the UK and Europe meeting with new customers with our UK partners, performing training and visiting potential and new customers.

We have a number of new customer implementations in progress and a number of large trial implementations of Air Maestro currently underway with various operators within Australia and internationally.

In conjunction with our next release we will also be providing customers with the ability to access online computer based training for the Air Maestro system. We will have various modules made available online by early April 2010 and will continue to expand this over the next few months. Please contact Avinet for information on how to access the trial of the online training system.

In May we will be attending as a trade exhibitor at the Commercial Aviation Safety Seminar being jointly run by the Flight Safety Foundation and the National Business Aviation Association held in Tucson, USA. We will partner Clockwork Research at the conference who will be presenting on "What we can learn from small operators that have implemented Fatigue Risk Management Systems" from research performed in Australia and New Zealand.

Our development plans for the product continue to evolve at a steady pace with a whole host of customer driven enhancements planned for the next release, due in April. The following is a list of a few of the more eagerly anticipated enhancements.

• Timsheet lockdown to prevent timesheets from being altered after a certain period of time.

• Prior Sleep Wake Model as an alternative or additional to other Fatigue Management methods.

• Specific reports in the Reporting Module can now be made available to personnel using the Access Level Groups.

• Document Library Viewer to prevent unauthorised copies of critical documents.

• FAID Analysis and Discretion Report Overview on rostered data.

• Actions (Request for Corrective Action or Suggested Improvements) now available in the Occurrence and Risk Investigations.

• View Only access for specific reports in the Reporting Module.

A more detailed list of the enhancements available in version 2.4 will be provided to customers closer to the release date.

Adelaide boy born and bred who for some 12 years wandered the eastern sea board spending time in Sydney (1994 -2000 Olympics), Brisbane and the Gold Coast (2001-2004), Melbourne (2004-2006 Commonwealth Games). Mike returned to Adelaide in 2006.

A qualified CPA has been employed for the majority of his career as an operations manager (with a flair to finance).

Most recently employed by a private business which encompassed agriculture and aviation.

An original member of Avinet at its foundation, Mike has always been involved at the Board level with Avinet and Air Maestro.

Flight Safety Foundation and the National Business Aviation Association are jointly hosting 55th Annual Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar in Tucson, Arizona, US. May 11^th to 13^th. Avinet will accompany Clockwork Research to the seminar. Clockwork Research will present on the findings on research into the experience of small to medium aviation operations in Australia and New Zealand implementing Fatigue Risk Management Systems.

Avinet will also be attending the Heli & UV Pacific Conference being held on May the 25^th to 27^th, in Queensland, Australia.

Avinet will also be a Trade Exhibitor at the AIA and NZAAA Conference being held in Palmerston North, New Zealand on July the 26^th to 30^th.

We received a great testimonial from Brindabella Airlines regarding their implementation process with Air Maestro. It is available in full on our website however the key factors identified by Brindabella Airlines are listed below.

• Air Maestro underpins each and every component of a Safety Management System meeting the requirements of CASA CAO82.1, 82.3 and 82.5

• Additional single login functionality including crew rostering, crew recurrency and FAID are invaluable for a business such as ours that are looking for cost effectiveness and simplicity.

• The Air Maestro interface is very intuitive and the reporting capabilities ensure all required information is accurate and readily available at the touch of a button. From initial training and rollout all our people were very keen to use the product.

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