Air Malta upgrades electronic flight bag

Air Malta has initiated a project to upgrade its ‘Electronic Flight Bag’ devices in the flight deck with an Apple iPad based solution that will provide pilots with one-touch access to up-to-date flight information, charts, maps, and other crucial navigation tools. The airline said it will be one of the first in the world to use such advanced technology in the cockpit. The iPads, equipped with Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro will help the airline to transition to a fully paperless cockpit where essential information will be available the moment it is required. The system is intended to reduce pilot workload, increase situational awareness in flight, lower operating costs through reduced fuel consumption based on weight savings and help Air Malta reduce its carbon emissions and become more environmentally friendly. A typical paper based pilot flight bag weighs around 25 kilograms containing thousands of pages of navigation, airport and runway charts, operating manuals, reference handbooks, flight checklists, logbooks and weather information. The removal of this weight from onboard each flight will reduce the airline annual fuel bill. Further cost reductions will be achieved through the...