Already college students studying through iPad. it put the whole college textbooks on the tablet for students to carry less weight. But this is the first time I hear of an airline that swaps the heavy flight manual for the Apple laptop.
Alaska Airlines, which operates since 1932 and has a fleet of over one hundred aircraft, announced it will start in mid-June by the exchange of textbooks iPads. Technically speaking, get a pile of paper weighing up to 11 pounds, to give time to the tiny tablet, whose weight is around 600 grams. Much less!
Pilots have access to all flight documents through the application GoodReader, which will come installed on all devices (in the App Store, priced at $ 4.99). It is a document reader with the right to add notes, highlight important parts of the text, and more.
Do not think, however, that the documents were simply exported to PDF. Alaska Airlines had to add color and graphics to manuals, and create links. So yes, the drivers can make the best of the iPad while in flight.
Alaska Airlines said it will not only block the installation of new applications. After all, a flight in which the autopilot does most everything, would not be surprising that the commander tablet to resort to something more interesting than flight manuals. Angry Birds, maybe. Flight Control Or, another good option.
