“In June the Allied Pilots Association noted that American Airlines (AA) conducted the first tests of iPads for all phases of flight,” Jason D. O’Grady reports for ZDNet. “AA pilots received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to test iPads with electronic charts this summer and asked to take it to the next logical level: replacing most of their paper books and charts with digital documents on the iPad.”
“A source tells me that the FAA has granted the approval and that AA will be the first airline in the world to be fully approved to use iPads in all phases of flight,” O’Grady reports. “The first iPad-flights are set to take off on Friday.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Sarah” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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