If operating an ``airline-size'' transport is a possibility for your flight department, you would do well to familiarize yourself with Daniel Systems Incorporated (DSI) of Opa Locka, Florida. The company's low profile in the maintenance management business belies the scope of its capabilities. Daniel Systems has been providing its aviation asset management software support to airlines, fleet operators and aircraft repair centers since 1968, and currently provides operators its services in two versions: COMPS and DSIS.

Operators of large and small aircraft maintenance facilities will appreciate the ease-of-use features found in the Log Book Organizer 2000. LBO 2000 is a new CD-ROM developed by Tim Carr, a former maintenance facility and charter operator owner. The program was designed to ease the record-keeping of maintenance, operating hours, cycles and other information. It features a suite of five databases: airframe, propeller, turbine engine, recip engine and APU.

It is hard to believe, but the FAA's DUATS program is almost seven years old. And at last, GTE DUATS, one of the FAA's two DUATS providers, has just released a new, Windows-compatible interface to DUATS. The new software, called Cirrus, enables its users to automate most of the process of dialing up and downloading DUATS briefings, creating flight plans off-line and filing flight plans. This is good news to pilots and others who found GTE DUATS' earlier DOS interface unattractive and clumsy to use.