denverpilot
Tied Down
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Interesting read. I was behind on my reading materials and such here, so this came out in April's edition of Callback and I just got around to reading it.
The stories of how electronic flight bags (EFBs), otherwise known to the rest of us as "our iPad" are both creating distractions in-flight due to oddities in user interfaces, and also becoming truly useless due to freeze-ups... and even messing with two-pilot professional flight crews... shouldn't be ignored.
I've certainly seen both Foreflight and Garmin Pilot do stuff that got me to go "heads-down" for way too long messing with it, and also have seen important data cut off by zooming, etc... just like these stories. And, of course, freezes and lock-ups that "catch up" eventually, also...
Be careful out there with the electronics kids...
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact...41327&ca=0d40e601-b750-466c-910f-fadb0a1734cb
Interesting read. I was behind on my reading materials and such here, so this came out in April's edition of Callback and I just got around to reading it.
The stories of how electronic flight bags (EFBs), otherwise known to the rest of us as "our iPad" are both creating distractions in-flight due to oddities in user interfaces, and also becoming truly useless due to freeze-ups... and even messing with two-pilot professional flight crews... shouldn't be ignored.
I've certainly seen both Foreflight and Garmin Pilot do stuff that got me to go "heads-down" for way too long messing with it, and also have seen important data cut off by zooming, etc... just like these stories. And, of course, freezes and lock-ups that "catch up" eventually, also...
Be careful out there with the electronics kids...
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact...41327&ca=0d40e601-b750-466c-910f-fadb0a1734cb