Airline Pilots Ditch Paper for iPads and Save Millions in Fuel
- June 21, 2011 • 11:20 am PDT
At least two airlines are switching from paper to iPads in the cockpit,Marketwatch reports.
Doling out gadgets may seem more like a recruiting perk than a sustainability decision, but pilots have to carry up to 35 pounds of paper with them in the cockpit on each flight. Swapping out those manuals, maps, and other documents to lighten the load could add up to $1.2 million in fuel savings, according to American Airlines.
Alaska Airlines was the first company to ditch paper back in May. They say use of the GoodReader iPad app, which has PDFs of 41 manuals the pilots need, will save 2.4 million pages of paper and make updating the documents much easier. Maps are still in paper form though.
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