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Gadling goes hands-on with the iPad flight bag

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2013)

Flight bags are going digital, and American Airlines is on the forefront of this move away from a paper-laden cockpit. American has approval to use the iPad in its 777, 737 and MD-80 airplanes and is starting to install the iPads in the cockpits of its MD-80 fleet. A recent segment in Gadling's ...

AA gives OK to place iPads in airplane cockpits

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 11th, 2012)

Soon, pilots from American Airlines will be able leave their oversized flight manual behind and grab their iPad when they hop into the pilot's seat. According to a report by The Next Web, the FCC gave the airlines the necessary approval to use the iPad as part of an electronic flight bag. In a ...

iPads on the flight decks of Alaska Airlines aircraft

by Steven Sande (May 28th, 2011)

I've talked about iPads for pilots a few times here on TUAW, particularly when discussing kneeboards for the device, but our sister site Engadget just pointed me to a press release from Alaska Airlines that caught my attention. The airline with the smiling Inuit on the tail has started a pair ...