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American Airlines has become the first commercial carrier to get Federal Aviation Administration approval to kit out their pilot’s ‘electronic flight bags’ with iPads for use in “all phases of flight,” reports “The Next Web” (http://macte.ch/KtHRl).
American’s pilots will be using the iPad, which is the only FAA-approved tablet as a replacement for paper-based reference manuals that weigh 35 pounds, the article adds. This will save AA an estimated $1.2 million of fuel across all of its planes annually, based on current fuel prices, according to “The Next Web.”
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