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Aviation => Aviation News (General) => Topic started by: Squawk 7700 on June 05, 2011, 09:30:59 PM
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Alaska Airlines will be the first U.S. Airline to replace paper manuals with iPads.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-airlines-replacing-paper-manuals-ipads
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Heard from PNF, "Hang on Captain, I'll have that emergency checklist as soon as my computer finishes rebooting.... Opps. I seem to have forgotten my password.."
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Great idea for non-critical data. Not so much for emergency checklists and procedures. I would think common sense would prevail there and a paper copy would still be available.
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(http://www.hexellent.com/files/11/Funny/A380_cockpit.jpg)