Advantages Of Using Electronic Flight Bag

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Advantages of using Electronic Flight Bag: • Improve operation flexibility. by giving the pilots instant access to the information’s that they are looking for. Easier to find the charts and documents that they want. • Enhancement of the cockpit management. The less paper environment creates a more organized work atmosphere. For example, instead of having three to four documents to look into, everything will be in one screen. • Reduce workload. Using technology reduces the workload on pilots when they are in a stressful situation. For example, when the weather is bad and the wind direction has been changing which might cause a runway change. Getting the performance figures by using specific software is much easier than digging through the papers and manuals. • Calculate the performance. EFB does an instant performance calculation which gives the pilots the ideal speeds and engine setting for take off in different conditions, which mean; any runway, with any pay loads and weather condition. Calculating the take off performance not just save time but its saves money as well by defining an accurate engine setting so the engines does not work harder than it required which will increase the engine life and reduce the cost of maintenance. It also gives less chances for pilots to do errors. • Reduce costs. Regarding the aerodrome charts, it gets updated every 28 days. So imagine every 28 days an airline has to update their documents for the whole fleet. The amount of papers and printing involves are tremendous. In addition to that, the time and manpower involved achieving these changes. Especially if an airline has a huge fleet of aircraft. This will result in a huge amount of saving. The money that is saved can be invested in other projects rather than wasting in printing papers and charts. The manpower can be used in various other

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