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United Express Flight From SFO Delayed Because Pilot Forgets His iPad
A United Express pilot flying from San Francisco to Burbank stunned passengers on Saturday when he said that the flight would be delayed while he returned home to get his iPad. (kcbsradio.radio.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
the cockpit crews do use ipads for a lot in todays aviation industry..i remember a few years back working a flight where the captain left his cell phone at the layover hotel, and the flight was delayed until the hotel shuttle people could bring it to airport as it had information of some sort he needed..it was about 30 minutes..nowadays you don't see the "kit bags"for paperwork that the crews used to have..
Today most of their manuals (MEL Manual, Flight Manuals and so forth are on the IPADS. They are a required part of the flight deck. Cannot depart without it.
I assure you that is not the first time that has happened... We have had more than 1 cancel due to that...
I was flying with an FO who went straight to the gate instead of the crew room to pick up his revisions. This was just before iPads came out. He let the captain know. We'd already loaded the pax, yet we had to taxi to the crew room so he could be legal to fly. That was a great start to a four day pairing.
At our regional airline, all we carry is iPads which contain all of our charts, manuals, MELs, etc. We can not start a flight without 2, but can continue a flight when one malfunctions. They've had studies on the likelihood of both iPads failing and its very slim. Each Captain is also required to carry a backup battery. If both iPads were to fail, we are instructed to go through our ACARS and have dispatch send us the textual versions of the charts. We are told when and what to download on our iPad and can not use it for anything personal. We carry spares at each hub airport that our fully charged and updated, so that if this were to occur, then the flight wouldn't be delayed.
This happened to me on a Delta flight from ATL-GPT in July of this year.We sat at the gate until the co-pilot returned from the previous gate he came in on.The pilot explained that we could not leave because all the routing info foo the flight was on his ipad.