SriLankan enters the new age of iPad electronic flying
SriLankan Airlines’ enters the new age of ‘iPad electronic flying’ by switching from using paper manuals, to a 662 gram iPad, as SriLankan becomes Asia’s first airline to use the iPad Electronic Flight Bag commencing yesterday.
Pilots no longer need to lug 84 kilograms of paper manuals from aircraft to aircraft and from airport to airport and flip through pages, when the process has now been streamlined to easy electronic searching. UL 205 bound for Muscat is the first flight which operated utilizing iPad Class 1 Electronic Flight Bags which are Portable Electronic Devices that store all the information that are generally available in several paper manuals, physically carried by pilots for reference.