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inducedrag 27th Apr 2013 21:21

EFB or IPAD
 
Are Airlines going to continue using the EFBs ? Have they
upgraded them to class 3 EFB or switched using iPad

StarvingPilotDotCom 27th Apr 2013 21:27

We just went for iPads for the whole fleet, still in the approval stage.

EpsilonVaz 27th Apr 2013 21:28

iPads failed a trial in our company as they would heat up in direct sunlight and then shut down.

FE Hoppy 27th Apr 2013 22:39

what do you mean "or"?

SMOC 28th Apr 2013 02:29

Aviation in the commercial world (Boeing/Airbus) moves at a snails pace, ipads move with the speed of commercial IT. iPads or similar are the way ahead.

737ngpilot 28th Apr 2013 04:46

We have EFBs and IPads in use....personally I like the pad better....

Twin2040 30th Apr 2013 14:57

We just got EFBs - like old 386 or 486 PC .... Hopeless outdated - Go Ipad

supermoix 30th Apr 2013 15:51

Not exactly airlines, but an idea of where things are going.

We removed from our citation fleet our slow, old, heavy unreliable, cumbersome touch interfaced FAA certified NavAero EFB's (windowsXP / pentium II based) and replaced them with iPads with Jeppesen Flight Deck software, weight and balance, perf charts and one propietary app to manage certain company documentation. We have assigned one for each crew and one to each aircraft about year and a half ago, and we're not looking back to anything else. We even have our own internal procedures on how to use them, update them and how to notify if any hardware or software operational discrepancies arise (none so far), so we have had 100% reliability in that period of time.

Yes, we operate FAR Part 91, so we don't need to have FAA operational authorization to use them, but the company and general crew consensus is that if any time in the future, the regulator want us to be certified, we will gladly go that route and keep using iPAds for terminal and enroute charting.


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