It was posted on the 'lounge from someone who just got back from recurrent and the fleet manager came in to talk about whats happening in the future. It would be freakin awesome if this happens, so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I guess people would just have to get used to taking the chart out of the binder and clipping it to the yoke. Thats a lot easier than lugging around 50+lbs of charts everywhere.

Has Eagle gotten Cat II certified yet? I imagine the aircraft library concept is a pipe dream of someone in Dallas. I hated lugging FM1 and the Three Jepp Binders around.

Life does get better... exentually you'll only need the red book, and one jepp binder... but, if this new idea they have comes around, I hope other carriers are quick to copy... I hate lugging the books.

My current airline "maintains" the jepps and company manuals as part of the aircraft library as you seem to be talking about. While it is very nice not to have to lug a flight bag around everywhere, there are drawbacks. Such as having to put up with other people taking out pages, and putting them back out of order or under the wrong airport. Or noticing that the charts are possibly a revision or two behind. Or dealing with pages that are falling apart because everyone uses them.

While lugging your own set around is a pain, it is nice to know that you are in charge of maintaining it, and nobody else can mess it up.

I would think the Red Book would be part of the a/c library.

Nothing beats delays at ORD and dispatch hounding you with ACARS msgs saying, "Please update your departure time you numbskull."

The point was that currently (if it hasn't changed) CA's only have to carry the red book, and one Jepp binder...

Or you could be on a permanent state of reserve and then carry everything! :)

And FO's only need to carry the blue book and one Jepp binder.

Don't forget all the applicable terminal charts(10-9 pages) for the sequence, even the ones not in your designated Jepp section.

and all the maps. both high and low.