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American Airlines: iPads prevent pilot back injuries

by Steven Sande (May 1st, 2013)

Many airlines have embraced the iPad as a way to replace the 40-pound flight bags containing charts and manuals, but until now there's been little talk about how those tablet deployments are going. At the Tablet Strategy conference in New York yesterday, American Airlines VP of Airline Operations ...

US Air Force Special Ops Command changes iPad purchase plans

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2012)

Back in December of 2011, the US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) announced that only iPads met the requirements to provide tablet computers to 2,861 crew members. AFSOC had done a three-month test last year with the result that the iPad "outmatched all peer competitors -- not only ...

iPad receives FAA certification as an electronic flight bag

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2011)

Jeppesen, the company that produces most of the paper and electronic "Jepp charts" used by pilots for preflight planning and inflight navigation, announced late last week that jet charter operator Executive Jet Management has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to use the ...