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[TECHNOLOGY CHANGES ON AVIATION-BY STEVE MATTHEWS]
The newest
advancement in aviation
technology is the move
to paperless cockpits.
With the introduction of
the iPad, pilots have all
the information that
once was in paper form
downloaded on an iPad
for use right at their
fingertips. What once
took a complete brief
case to carry can now be
placed on an iPad.
Approach plates, maps,
checklists, company policies, weather
are all setting on the pilot’s lap in the
airplane.
Pilots now download real time
weather onto the iPads as they fly so
they have a much more current idea of
what is ahead. This weather can be
displayed in many ways on the maps
as well as on the approach plates as
they prepare to land.
Technology has changed
how we fly in the 28
years I have been flying.
More changes have
occurred in the last 25
years than in all the
years prior in how pilots
are able to access
information in the
cockpit. I always tell my
much younger pilots that I can only
imagine what the cockpit will look like
when they are my age.