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SriLankan goes paperless to save jet fuel
Wednesday, 29 August 2012 - 1:26 PM SL Time
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SriLankan Airlines is entering the new age of iPad electronic flying by switching from using bulky mandatory paper manuals, to a sleek 662 gram iPad, as SriLankan becomes Asia s first airline to use the iPad Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) starting 29th August, 2012, the national carrier said in a statement.
The green benefits of using iPad EFBs are immense as there will be a drastic reduction in the use of thousands of sheets of paper and printing. iPad EFB usage will also save approximately 264,000 gallons of jet fuel per annum and in turn reduce tons of emissions, the airline said.
`Pilots no longer need to lug 84 kilograms of paper manuals from aircraft to aircraft and from airport to airport and flip through pages, when the process is now streamlined to easy electronic searching,` a statement from the airline said.
`UL 205 bound for Muscat is the first flight to be operated utilizing iPad Class 1 EFBs which are Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) that store all the information that are generally available in several paper manuals, physically carried by pilots for reference. The iPad EFB is an information management device displaying data intended primarily for flight-deck or cabin use.
According to the airline, iPad EFB usage will also result in reduced weight on board and paper clutter in the cockpit reduce fuel usage due to more accurate takeoff & landing, weight & balance calculations improved safety with on-board performance calculations ability to increase payload with real time performance calculations improved route decisions and in the whole process, save aircraft engine lifetime.
`By end October 2012, the entire technical flight crew of approximately 300 pilots will be using the iPad EFBs in the all Airbus fleet of A340s, A330s and A320 aircraft,` the airline said.
` SriLankan has become Asia s first to get regulatory authorization from Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) for the use of the EFB and has opted for the EFB solution for iPad from Fokker Services in the Airbus A320 s, A330 s and A340 s and progressively introduce Airbus FlySmart Software to calculate aircraft performance and to refer all manuals. SriLankan will also use the JeppesonFliteDeck Pro to refer charts.
Last year, the revenue of SriLankan Airlines increased by 16.3 percent to Rs. 78.9 billion, while the operating expenditure increased by 32.2 percent to Rs. 98 billion resulting in an operating loss of Rs. 19.1 billion. High fuel prices and lower yields due to increased competition contributed to the increase in operating expenditure of the airline.
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