Electronic flight bag achieves paperless cockpit milestone

Citation

(2006), "Electronic flight bag achieves paperless cockpit milestone", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 78 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2006.12778ead.009

Electronic flight bag achieves paperless cockpit milestone

Electronic flight bag achieves paperless cockpit milestone

Keywords: Aerospace industry, Aircraft components

CMC Electronics' new PilotView electronic flight bag (EFB) has enabled a west coast global express business jet operator to achieve paperless cockpit status. The PilotView EFB was installed by ABC Completions of Montreal, Quebec. ABC Completions received a supplemental type certificate for CMC Electronics' class 2 EFB in 2005. As part of the installation, ABC Completions has provided a custom made telescopic articulating mount, which places the EFB in the optimum position for comfortable viewing and usage, while maintaining safe operations of all cockpit controls.

“The CMC Electronics PilotView EFB provides the quality of a class 3 system, but with the flexibility of a class 2 system” explained Gary Nash, President, ABC Completions.

CMC's PilotView EFB improves productivity by enabling pre-flight planning and efficient access to up to date aircraft documentation, checklists and flight planning information. PilotView increases situational awareness in-flight with en-route, approach charts, moving map display, EVS display and graphical real time weather information. The PilotView is a compact, lightweight system with a display/processor unit and aircraft interface unit which are to easy to install in a variety of cockpits where space is at a premium.

Qualification to RCTA DO-160D and a design with no moving parts guarantee continued operation in all phases of flight. A high-quality 8.4inch AMLCD display offers exceptional readability in all cockpit ambient light conditions. In addition to line select keys and a convenient integrated keyboard, the PilotView EFB offers a “film-on-glass” touch-sensitive screen providing pilots with a choice when accessing or navigating through EFB software applications. PilotView allows a pilot to immediately view what is on the other pilot's display through the touch of a single key. A feature is a one- touch video key that enables the pilot to toggle between the current application and video images from video surveillance systems.

Details available from: CMC Electronics Inc., Tel: +1 514 748 3148, Fax: +1 514 748 3100, web site: www.cmelectronics.ca