The iPad is taking off with more than just consumers. Airline pilots could soon be using it to carry the navigational information they need instead of reams of paper charts or a cumbersome laptop.
Alaska Airlines is evaluating Apple's iPad with "a select group of pilots," says spokeswoman Maryanne Lindsay. "We're hoping to hear in the next week or two" whether they'd like to go further with their testing, she adds, declining to go into details.
Last month, Executive Jet Management, a unit of NetJets that flies small chartered jets, became the first commercial operator authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration to use the lightweight tablet computers as the sole source of reference info while on the runway and in the air.
Navigational-data supplier Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary, makes the iPad app used by both Alaska and Executive Jet.
"The pilots are absolutely in love with this device — they are clamoring to get this," says Rick Ellerbrock, Jeppesen's chief strategist for aviation.
FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown says Southwest is using iPads for ground operations such as maintenance, and the agency expects to hear from more airlines about taking the tablets aloft.
Rather than have pilots toting briefcases full of charts, airlines increasingly have shifted toward so-called "electronic flight bag" systems where the data are stored electronically. But that still means lugging around a laptop.
The iPad appeals because "it's so light, so thin. It's very conducive to the small amount of real estate you have on the flight deck," says Jeppesen director Tim Huegel. The company is working on an app for tablets running the Android operating system, too.
Executive Jet has its iPads strapped to a "kneeboard" secured on the pilot's upper leg with an elastic band, while "Alaska is looking to mount it in the airplane itself," Ellerbrock says. Due to possible electronic interference, the FAA must approve exactly how the device is used in the cabin.
Not surprisingly, there's concern pilots could become distracted by their carry-on gadgets — remember the Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles because they were engrossed in something on their laptop? The FAA last April warned that "any cockpit distraction that diverts attention from required duties can constitute a safety risk, and that includes the use of personal electronic devices for activities unrelated to flight."
Things not to worry about: Airlines won't be relying on the iPad's GPS to figure out the plane's location — that's still up to the aircraft's navigational system. Also, tests conducted by Jeppesen confirm that if there's a sudden loss of air pressure at altitudes up to 51,000 feet, the iPad will continue working.
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