Federal Aviation Agency has formally approved the U.S., allowing the pilots of the airline American Airlines is allowed to use the Apple iPad tablet in all flights.
This equipment will be used to replace traditional paper bag used by pilots in flight before.
American Airlines is the airline first received authorization from the Federal Aviation Agency, which allows pilots to use iPad in all phases of flight. Pilots at United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are also being used to try Apple's device on the flight.
As ZDNet reports, iPad will start being used on American Airlines flights from today (16/12) and used to replace traditional paper bag on flights which are mainly used as a flight manual contains information such as navigation charts and details how to operate a special feature when the aircraft is flying.
An anonymous source said to ZDNet, American Airlines will start operations iPad flight number B-777 and then perform all other aircraft fleets.
The source revealed: "The other airlines like United, Alaska and UPS has been considering this potential but no one received approval to conduct flight operations in all phases of flight. The results approved for American Airlines is the result after it tested within 6 months with thousands of flight hours with iPad to test and evaluate products. "
A paper bag on the flight will include 12,000 pages and weighs 17 kg. Meanwhile iPad weighs under 1 kg and is much smaller. In August, United Airlines has clearly explained the benefit of the pocket area of paper in the previous flight and said that would save 16 million sheets of paper / year, equivalent to about 1,900 trees cut down to as raw materials.
This also means that the aircraft will be lighter, saving about 326 gallons of jet fuel a year, so cut to 3,208 tons of emissions causing the greenhouse effect.
This equipment will be used to replace traditional paper bag used by pilots in flight before.
As ZDNet reports, iPad will start being used on American Airlines flights from today (16/12) and used to replace traditional paper bag on flights which are mainly used as a flight manual contains information such as navigation charts and details how to operate a special feature when the aircraft is flying.
An anonymous source said to ZDNet, American Airlines will start operations iPad flight number B-777 and then perform all other aircraft fleets.
The source revealed: "The other airlines like United, Alaska and UPS has been considering this potential but no one received approval to conduct flight operations in all phases of flight. The results approved for American Airlines is the result after it tested within 6 months with thousands of flight hours with iPad to test and evaluate products. "
A paper bag on the flight will include 12,000 pages and weighs 17 kg. Meanwhile iPad weighs under 1 kg and is much smaller. In August, United Airlines has clearly explained the benefit of the pocket area of paper in the previous flight and said that would save 16 million sheets of paper / year, equivalent to about 1,900 trees cut down to as raw materials.
This also means that the aircraft will be lighter, saving about 326 gallons of jet fuel a year, so cut to 3,208 tons of emissions causing the greenhouse effect.
