"When you need to a make a decision in the cockpit, three to four minutes fumbling with paper is an eternity."
ipads would be great but
that is a bit of a furphy IMO. I'd wager it would take just as much time to hoik out your ipad, boot it up, go to the app with the info you want and then find the info compared to diving into my navbag, pulling out the required doc and opening it at the correct page.
Alaska Airlines... ...has given iPads to all its pilots
I'll take one!
