The cost justification around using the iPads in the cockpit was largely based around the savings from the cost of the paper - both in terms of keeping it up to date, but also the physical weight multiplied out over the >6000 flights that AA flies each day. Having paper as a backup would negate all of those benefits.
The article doesn't mention Reagan airport at all, so I'm not sure what your comments about it are regarding... (And for what it's worth, it's not really in the middle of any city - in fact it's literally metres from the edge of one city/state (Arlington, VA) and the start of the next (Washington, D.C.)) Scott On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Jan Whitaker <jw...@janwhitaker.com> wrote: > A case for replicated sources that are reliable. Maybe leave the paper ON > the plane, just in case. > If anyone has flown into DC, this is the airport smack in the middle of > the city, with views of the major landmarks as you come up the Potomac > River (not Dulles, which is out in the fields far from the city) > > > http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/ipad-app-failure-delays-74-flights-in-the-us-forces-pilots-back-to-paper-charts-20150429-1mwiq0.html > > > > I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 > > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia > jw...@janwhitaker.com > Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker > Blog: www.janwhitaker.com > > Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do > you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. > ~Margaret Atwood, writer > > _ __________________ _ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
