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Sweden tests iPad as flight instruments

Stockholm, Sweden - There will be any papers in the cockpit

The Swedish company Amapola is testing the use, on the cockpit of its planes, of an electronic flight-bag installation, based on Apple's iPad, for its Fokker 50 biturboprop fleet. This technology, that has been installed the first time last November, is much more intuitive and allows to pilot without the use of ship's paper, which are all loaded on a database provided by Navtech that is regularly...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1125478
Rome, Italy, 02/04/2011 16:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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