Electronics and other things.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 07:39AM I just got back from a week performing an IOSA Audit of an Airline based in Europe. This in itself is not odd, but this was the first airline I've encountered that is completely electronic. There are no printed manuals, no printed checklists or other documentation. This presented a challenge for us as it's not always easy, when searching a PDF document, to rapidly find what you're looking for. Couple this with the fact that the auditee's representatives are not always as computer literate as one would like, made it slow going. We got there in the end, but not without a few tears.
I'm impressed at the level of sophistication involved. The crews are supplied with Pen Tablet computers at the time of dispatch and these, along with the onboard aircraft computers, contain all the documentation required for the flight. The only hard copy information carried in the cockpit are High Altitude Enroute Charts and the QRH. All loadsheets, weather, NOTAMS etc. are presented, signed and stored electronically. I can see that this is the way things are going in the industry, but I still have nagging fears about data loss and lack of accessibility due to computer failure, battery failure etc. I guess I'm just an old dinosaur who likes to have some paper to scribble on.
Reader Comments (1)
Time is changing & every one has to change with the time.Today we can see that all the sectors in the business have been changed with the use of newer & newer technologies.So i don`t think Airlines will lag behind.