Next thing you know pilots will use remote desktop and fly the planes from their houses.
The Air Force does (drones)
Next thing you know pilots will use remote desktop and fly the planes from their houses.
Funny how our NYC to Paris to Dubai to Maldives flights all had 220 Volt power at the passenger seats, so you could plug in and use a laptop never mind recharging an iPad.
It seems a lot of the commenters here haven't been on a modern passenger plane lately.
DUH but United doesn't fly VFR. All commercial airliners fly IFR.
The primary use for an iPad is entertainment. It IS a toy in 90% of peoples minds.
Flying an Airplane is a serious thing. You have countless lives in your care.
Yes I know you think it's cool and are hypnotized by the big touch screen.
But I don't care, I don't want my pilot distracted by a stupid toy!
Each iPad, which weighs less than 1.5 pounds, will replace approximately 38 pounds of paper operating manuals, navigation charts, reference handbooks, flight checklists, logbooks and weather information in a pilot's flight bag. A conventional flight bag full of paper materials contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot. The green benefits of moving to EFBs are two-fold--it significantly reduces paper use and printing, and, in turn, reduces fuel consumption. The airline projects EFBs will save nearly 16 million sheets of paper a year which is equivalent to more than 1,900 trees not cut down. Saving 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons.
36.5 pounds save 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons
That's incredible, I wonder if there is anything else that can be done to reduce weight.![]()
All you need is a less fat passenger per flight to save 38 pounds. Or 5 slimmer air stewardesses...
Funny how our NYC to Paris to Dubai to Maldives flights all had 220 Volt power at the passenger seats, so you could plug in and use a laptop never mind recharging an iPad.
It seems a lot of the commenters here haven't been on a modern passenger plane lately.
And that's why airlines want to charge fat people more. And they should.
Dumb response. Each aircraft will have a set of paper Jeppesen charts, for the unlikely event the each pilot's iPad battery is low, or the iPad fails.
Distractions are dangerous.
Funny how our NYC to Paris to Dubai to Maldives flights all had 220 Volt power at the passenger seats, so you could plug in and use a laptop never mind recharging an iPad.
It seems a lot of the commenters here haven't been on a modern passenger plane lately.
1)Nice pitch for Apple
2)Come on...the 38 pound reduction is another Let's Go Green crapola from yet another company. Technically, with everything else being equal (all flights are not equal), sure, saving 38 pounds must amount to some fuel savings...but you're telling me saving 38 pounds on an AIRPLANE carrying hundreds of people and thousands of pieces of luggage...all amassing to about 800,000 pounds. Lots of carry-ons weigh more than 38 pounds! Babies weigh more than 38 pounds! Different weight people on each flight...etc.
Again, nice sales pitch ra ra ra for saving the earth from paper consumption and saving that $.02 on fuel. But the real answer for UA using the ipad was all in the lets-finally-go-digital rather than the weight savings. It's all about companies, in any shape or form, reducing paper and improving business processes and efficiencies through computer use.
And that's why airlines want to charge fat people more. And they should.
Maybe you wouldn't do that.
But who's to say someone won't, especially if the simple Jailbreak exploits work on this iPad as well?
Also, Who said they would be all that locked down?
Успокоиться, Rasputin.
The primary use for an iPad is entertainment. It IS a toy in 90% of peoples minds.
Flying an Airplane is a serious thing. You have countless lives in your care.
Yes I know you think it's cool and are hypnotized by the big touch screen.
But I don't care, I don't want my pilot distracted by a stupid toy!
The reason this rule is applied, is that in the early days of cell phones, the FAA determined that some devices would cause certain types of fire alarms to report fires when no fire was present. As such it's mostly their way of "better safe than sorry".
The Eiffel Tower in the background...nice touch.
This is exactly what I was talking about
Ha Ha
"Старый Распутин" в настоящее время мой любимый пива
Anyway, yeah that's exactly what I'm saying
Dumb idea. When the iPad runs out of battery and/or dies the pilots won't be able to navigate the SIDS/STARS when on departure or arrival.
The primary use for an iPad is entertainment. It IS a toy in 90% of peoples minds.
Flying an Airplane is a serious thing. You have countless lives in your care.
Yes I know you think it's cool and are hypnotized by the big touch screen.
But I don't care, I don't want my pilot distracted by a stupid toy!
Since you can't run a laptop off USB it makes no sense -- OTOH you can plug in a cell phone charger into a normal plug. All modern computing/phone devices are 100V~240V & 50/60Hz -- and I'm sure they have heavy duty circuit breakers in case of a short.Do planes have usb plug in yets for charging? And do the planes offer volt converters so some idiot doesn't cause a short in the system by jamming in the wrong type of plug (is that even possible?)?
FYI here's an old IEEE paper that discusses concerns for interference from personal electronic devices (PEDs) on commercial airlines.
Do Portable Electronics Endanger Flight? (IEEE Spectrum Sept 1996)
certainly technology has changed since the paper was written (they mention laptops with CPUs running 133MHz - how quaint!), however you can see reasons why you might worry about possible interference with critical systems during takeoff and landing. Take a look at figure 2, you can see the frequency bands of many of the important avionics. Common electronic devices use or generate clock frequencies & harmonics across the entire range of frequency bands.
one quote from the article:
Most at risk among these systems are those that have antennas located at various points outside the skin of the aircraft to pick up the navigation and communication signals. "Those are the instruments that we cannot harden because they are built to receive very small signals," said Dave Walen, manager of electromagnetic effects at Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Everett, Wash. "We rely on those sensitive receivers to pick up small signals in space. And that is the primary concern we have with carry-on electronic devices."
while I'm at it, here's a brief FAA presentation that illustrates the concept of both intentional and unintentional transmitters in PEDs
anyhow, contrary to popular belief, there is some science behind the concerns of EMI interference onboard planes. Maybe the risk is extremely low, but I guess neither the FAA nor the airlines want to 100% guarantee every passenger's (unknown) device won't cause some sudden momentary loss of a navigation system during landing approach... OTOH they could easily test 2 iPads in the cockpit, running under specific conditions, during specific phases of the flight.