Electronic Flight Bag
10-27-2006, 09:42 AM
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Electronic Flight Bag
The company I work for is rolling out Electronic Flight Bags to its fleet of aircraft soon. We are looking at Class 1 EFB's and I was wondering if anybody knew of any hard info regarding the ease of use between EFB class 1 and paper documents. I think there must have been studies done regarding time to reference the materials and ease of use or something to that affect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My thoughts are that Honeywell, Garmin, or maybe Boeing has done work with it. Maybe even at the University level as well. Also, does anyone know who is the manufacturer of the 777 EFB. That might lead me to the answers I am looking for.
Cheers,
Illini
My thoughts are that Honeywell, Garmin, or maybe Boeing has done work with it. Maybe even at the University level as well. Also, does anyone know who is the manufacturer of the 777 EFB. That might lead me to the answers I am looking for.
Cheers,
Illini
10-30-2006, 08:10 AM
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Illini,
There are several thorough discussions about EFBs and implementing them over on another aviation pilot forum. Depending on the type of operation you are flying for (91/135/121), there will be different requirements for implementation.
We just put two EFBs onto our Citation (part 91). Originally we looked at fully integrated equipment (class 3), but ended up choosing an off the shelf class 1 system that was significantly cheaper.
Simply, we put fujitsu tablets on the plane. These are loaded with WXworx XM weather and Jepp software (plates). They connect via bluetooth to the XM Weather receiver and a small bluetooth GPS unit for non-navigational position info on the moving maps.
The interface is relatively easy to use, and requires approximately the same amount of predeparture setup time as a full set of paper charts does (considering Q-service revisions for the entire US). I don't know of any studies, but the EFBs are a huge asset IMO, and end up paying for themselves in 3 years (based solely on publications cost for paper vs CD revisions).
If you want to chat sometime, feel free to give me a ring- I'll PM you my phone number and email.
~Josh
There are several thorough discussions about EFBs and implementing them over on another aviation pilot forum. Depending on the type of operation you are flying for (91/135/121), there will be different requirements for implementation.
We just put two EFBs onto our Citation (part 91). Originally we looked at fully integrated equipment (class 3), but ended up choosing an off the shelf class 1 system that was significantly cheaper.
Simply, we put fujitsu tablets on the plane. These are loaded with WXworx XM weather and Jepp software (plates). They connect via bluetooth to the XM Weather receiver and a small bluetooth GPS unit for non-navigational position info on the moving maps.
The interface is relatively easy to use, and requires approximately the same amount of predeparture setup time as a full set of paper charts does (considering Q-service revisions for the entire US). I don't know of any studies, but the EFBs are a huge asset IMO, and end up paying for themselves in 3 years (based solely on publications cost for paper vs CD revisions).
If you want to chat sometime, feel free to give me a ring- I'll PM you my phone number and email.
~Josh
11-07-2006, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by mistarose
I thought Horizon was implementing EFBs into all of their aircraft?
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