Surface Pro 3 can now be used as a pilot's Electronic Flight Bag

Microsoft'south Surface Pro 3 tablet has at present been approved past the Federal Aviation Assistants (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for use as a airplane pilot'due south Electronic Flight Bag, which means it will replace the old fashioned beefy paper flight manuals.

The older Surface 2 tablet is already being used past Delta Airlines pilots for their EFB but today'due south proclamation on the Surface Pro 3 also comes with news that pilots will also be able to apply the tablet with some special software and accessories. I of them is a special mount developed by navAero that the Surface Pro 3 can sit in while in the cockpit of a plane. Microsoft says:

"These mounts leverage the same single connectedness found on the Surface Pro three Docking Station – allowing Surface Pro 3 to plug directly into the plane'southward electronics through a unique interface to provide simultaneous power, data and display connectivity through ane unproblematic connection. For pilots, this means added benefits such as automatic updates to navigational and operational content and admission to critical existent-time information similar conditions, wind and turbulence data. Pilots can as well easily remove their Surface Pro three from the mount and employ them equally their laptop replacement outside the cockpit."

In addition, the FliteDeck Pro app for Windows viii.one, adult past Jeppesen, lets pilots use Snap mode on the Surface Pro 3 to view flight charts adjacent to other information like weather weather and more. Do yous retrieve it'due south a expert idea for tablets to supersede flying manuals on airplanes?

Source: Microsoft

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