Aeroflot performed an old "electronic dream" of the pilots

In 2012 Aeroflot equipped 45 Airbus A320 aircrafts with "electronic portfolios of the pilot" (Electronic flight bag), TAdviser the Deputy CEO of airline for information technologies Kirill Bogdanov told on March 22, 2013. In 2013 with such devices it is going to equip all air park of airline which in total has 132 vessels, he says.

"The electronic portfolio" which uses Aeroflot, in fact, represents the tablet which in electronic form contains all comprehensive information on route, to spare airfields, etc.

In addition the device helps the pilot in real time at any stage of flight to select the correct mode in terms of consumption of fuel and also the most optimal mode of take off and landing depending on weather conditions behind a board, Bogdanov explains.

"Earlier pilots had to carry with themselves suitcases weighing more than 50 kg in which there were routemaps, spare airfields, approaches, landing at all points of following of the airplane, and now it is the special tablet", - Kirill Bogdanov says.

Tablets for pilots which are implemented by airline are certified by Airbus and Boeing and do not influence work of an aircraft equipment, tells the deputy director general of Aeroflot. About two such devices are the share of each aircraft.

Aeroflot bore plans for use of "electronic portfolios" of the pilot several years and tested similar devices in 2007. However then the airline faced a number of problem points, such as lack of the complete database of air navigation information in Russia, lack of the regulatory base on use of similar devices onboard, etc.

It should be noted that "electronic portfolios" for pilots are actively used by the western pilots. As a rule, these devices are installed permanently in a cabin of pilots. Some organizations as "an electronic portfolio" adapt iPad which does not provide so complete functionality as the stationary systems, but allows to refuse paper in cabins of pilots. Over 20 thousand iPad for this purpose in 2012, for example, bought the U.S. Air Force.