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Company History

Aeronautical Software Developments (ASD) was founded in 1996 to provide solutions to Procedure Designers of ICAO PANS-OPS and FAA TERPS criteria. The first product was PDToolKit, a software toolkit for ICAO PANS-OPS designers on the Bentley MicroStation CAD platform.

In early 2000, a new version of PDToolKit was released which was developed on the Microsoft ActiveX technology which allowed different CAD systems to be used as the graphical engine; so PDToolKit was made available on the Autodesk AutoCAD as well as the established Bentley MicroStation platform.

Using the CAD products gave PDToolKit the benefit of high performance graphics display and an established industry documents that are accepted worldwide; these being DWG and DGN.

An aviation calculator was added to PDToolKit in early 2002 to assist customers with their designs, this tool is Windows based and can be used outside of the CAD engine. In 2008, this tool is being completely re-designed giving a new interface and developed using the latest technology from Microsoft; .NET.

2007 has seen more momentum developing in the Microsoft .NET Framework and benefits of this will be seen in 2008 with new products and updates to PDToolKit.

ASD is committed to providing quality tools for procedure designers, in 2008 more products was added to grow the solutions offered. Today, ASD is an established company in the aeronautical market place with solutions being used all over the world.