United Continental Holdings is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. Distribution of iPads began earlier this month, and all pilots will have them by year end.
Each iPad, which weighs less than 1.5 pounds, will replace approximately 38 pounds of paper operating manuals, navigation charts, reference handbooks, flight checklists, logbooks and weather information in a pilot's flight bag. A conventional flight bag full of paper materials contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot.
The airline projects it will save nearly 16 million sheets of paper a year and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons.
The iPads are loaded with Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck, the industry's premier app featuring interactive, data-driven enroute navigation information and worldwide geo-referenced terminal charts.
United replaces paper manuals with iPads
Each iPad, which weighs less than 1.5 pounds, will replace approximately 38 pounds of paper operating manuals, navigation charts, reference handbooks, flight checklists, logbooks and weather information in a pilot's flight bag. A conventional flight bag full of paper materials contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot.
The airline projects it will save nearly 16 million sheets of paper a year and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons.
The iPads are loaded with Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck, the industry's premier app featuring interactive, data-driven enroute navigation information and worldwide geo-referenced terminal charts.
United replaces paper manuals with iPads
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