Alaska Airlines replaces heavy paper flight manuals with the iPad

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iPad in the cockpit , woot ! 

Alaska Airlines has become the first US Airline ( or first airline in the world according to my knowledge) to replace heavy paper flight manuals with the Apple iPad. This means that Airline pilots will only have to carry a 700 gram iPad (assuming it’s the iPad2 WiFi version) in place of over 11 kilos of paper manuals.

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