Ipads for pilots...ipads para los pilotos

The United States has the most advanced air force in the world

but  pilots still haul great amounts of paper flight documents into the cockpit. That may soon end: The Air Mobility Command is experimenting with what they are calling an electronic flight bag, for us... iPads.

Maps, charts flight plans and other documents that pilots have to lug into the cockpit are now loaded on to the iPads as part of an experimental program. They're still carrying the paper while evaluating the electronic flight bags

Commercial pilots are also beginning to use them. The digital flight bags are easier on the backs of pilots, who no longer have to haul huge bags around, but there is another benefit: the reduction in weight carried on to the plane also saves on fuel costs.

El uso de ipads, tabletas, ereaders ..., es cada vez mas habitual en nuestras vidas a pesar de que nos cueste cambiar a los que poco o nada estamos acostumbrados a ellos. Cierto que estas herramientas son ligeras, cómodas y que ahorran cantidades ingentes de papel. Pues bien, ahora los pilotos tanto de las fuerzas aéreas americanas como de vuelos comerciales, forman parte de un programa experimental que sustituye sus documentos de cabina por ipads con toda la información. Lo dicho, el progreso es cambio.