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Old 25th Apr 2019, 23:03
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Ia8825
 
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And yet the airlines feel comfortable going to iPads and EFB’s...... wonder if anyone has told them the iPad isn’t reliable. Worst case scenario my iPad is good for 3 years (realistically 5), so it’s costing me about $150 per year. A subscription to DAPS alone costs nearly that much. The chance of both my iPads failing during flight is about as likely as your paper charts failing. And the vast majority of pilots have gone to EFBs and we don’t seem to have every pilot in Australia getting lost. In fact they now have easy access to vast amounts of information to support their in flight decision making. I understand wanting a paper back up, but realistically that can be done by just carrying a WAC. The capabilities of all the EFBs these days is phenomenal and only getting better.
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