SRILANKAN AIRLINES’ FLIGHT DECKS GO PAPERLESS

Colombo,Sri Lanka : SriLankan Airlines has become Asia’s first airline to use the iPad Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) which sees the airline enter the new age of ‘electronic flying’ by switching from bulky mandatory paper manuals, to a sleek 662 gramme iPad.

Pilots no longer need to lug 84kg of paper manuals from aircraft to aircraft and from airport to airport and flip through pages, when the process is now streamlined to easy electronic searching.

UL 205 bound for Muscat on August 29 was the first flight to be operated utilising iPad Class 1 Electronic Flight Bags which are Portable Electronic Devices that store all the information that are generally available in several paper manuals, physically carried by pilots for reference.

The iPad Electronic Flight Bag is an information management device displaying data intended primarily for flight-deck or cabin use. “SriLankan has taken the lead in Asia to revolutionise the flight deck, realising the vision of paperless flying and becoming Asia’s first airline to fly with iPad Electronic Flight Bags,” said SriLankan’s Chairman, Nishantha Wickremasinghe.

“SriLankan will be the first customer airline to commence ‘digital flying’ using the Fokker iPAD CLASS 2 installation, on the Airbus A340, A330 and A320. The process will make flying that much easier, more efficient, accurate and greatly help the airline’s bottom line, as millions of rupees will be saved,” said SriLankan’s Chief Executive Officer, Kapila Chandrasena.

03/09/2012  :  The Peninsula.

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