lj101, yes, that is indeed the system. Although the screenshots in that brochure show software of a couple of years ago which is now being further improved.
If there's a receiver fuel degrade, you just supply the facts to the system and it recomputes the trail automatically. Similarly, as soon as a receiver is full, it may be disconnected - none of the wasteful 'keep in contact until geographic end of bracket' Victor-think of the last century. You just call the receivers for a gravy check, enter the figures and tell it to update. It then shows you its solution; if you wish to amend the proposed plan, that can be achieved either by drag-and-drop on the map or by 'distance to waypoint' definition.
It's simple, reliable and user friendly - and has been proved in support of combat operations in both Libya and Mali.
According to one of the end users, it is more accurate than their 'official' CFP provider's system for fuel planning.....
The modern RAF is more risk averse than a primary school road safety lesson...
Which makes you wonder how the MAA can accept the mathematically flawed 'RAPS' for Voyager in-flight trail re-planning when there's a perfectly good system already in use in another Airbus tanker.
The plot was lost two decades ago.
Indeed. The RAF was offered a good deal for a fleet of 24(?) A310 MRTTs to replace the ageing VC10 and TriStar fleets.
Attempting to fit pods to the TriStar became a complete money pit. Thankfully, for once the MoD made the right decision and cancelled the whole concept.
As for the 'glass cockpit' TriStar fiasco:
October 2006 - Marshall Aerospace is awarded a £22M contract to upgrade the RAF TriStars' avionics and FMS including a 'glass cockpit' as the 'MMR upgrade'. This should have been a relatively low-risk programme as it used elements of the C-130 cockpit upgrade already underway for the RNAF.
November 2007 - ZD949 arrives at Cambridge for the trial installation with a planned completion date of Q3 2008 at which time the second TriStar would begin conversion.
2008 came and went.
2009 came and went.
January 2010 - ZD949 finally makes its first flight with the MMR upgrade.
October 2010 - SDSR indicates that the TriStar will start to leave RAF service in 2013; TriStar MMR programme is to be discontinued.
December 2010 - After 100 hours of flight test, ZD949 finally passes MoD review and is due to be back in service in Spring 2011.
2011 - Due to the change in out-of-service date now planned for the TriStar and with the A330MRTT due in service by the end of the year, ZD949 remains at Cambridge in a pristine state under 'storage' and is to be 'reduced to spares' - a euphemism for being scrapped - as it would be too expensive to convert it back to its original state.
October 2011 - A330MRTT (now 'Voyager') fails to meet release to service date; now expected to be 'sometime in January 2012'.
January 2012 - Voyager still not in service.
January 2013 - Voyager still not in AAR service.
May 2013 - Voyager is finally given RAF clearance to refuel the Tornado.