TechBytes: iPad Flight Manuals
Alaska Airlines Opts for iPads Instead of Paper Flight Manuals.
May 30, 2011 — -- Alaska Airlines Goes Digital
In today's TechBytes, iPads take flight. Alaska Airlines now has permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to ditch those big paper printouts -- flight manuals -- for each flight and instead put the data on iPads. Those hard copy flight manuals can weigh as much as 25 pounds. The airline is also exploring other ways to save paper and put the flight charts on iPads, too.
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