United Pilots To Use iPads For Navigation

bonch writes "Pilots of United and Continental will ditch flight manuals and charts in favor of 11,000 iPads containing the same data in app form. Replacing 38 pounds of paper materials, the iPads will run an app called Mobile FliteDeck from Jeppesen, a provider of software navigation tools. Alaska Airlines adopted iPads back in May. United estimates a savings of 326,000 gallons of fuel a year due to the lighter load."

iPad taking off

[ewg]

The iPad is finally taking off.

Don't fly on any airline that uses Android tablets

[jmcbain]

I definitely would not want to fly with any airline that uses Android tablets.

• If the airline uses Android tablets, that means the airline is not doing well financially, which means they're probably cutting back on safety and comfort as well.
• Android's excessive fragmentation and malware means that the Android tablets may be crippled, causing the pilots to crash the plane.

Say NO to mediocrity. Say NO to Android.