{"id":5522,"date":"2011-12-14T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/faa-approves-ipads-in-the-cockpit\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T14:39:12","slug":"faa-approves-ipads-in-the-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/faa-approves-ipads-in-the-cockpit\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA approves iPads in the cockpit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/apple\/faa-approves-ipads-in-the-cockpit-american-airlines-to-start-friday\/11865'>FAA approves iPads in the cockpit?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/aerospace\/2011\/06\/16\/american-airlines-tests-ipad-based-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines recently conducted successful tests of iPads loaded with electronic charts<\/a>.\u00a0 <em>ZDNet<\/em> writes that the FAA will now likely grant full approval for airlines to make use of iPads as replacements for paper books, charts, and other documents.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/aerospace\/2011\/06\/16\/american-airlines-tests-ipad-based-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Seattle Pi<\/em><\/a>, &ldquo;a 1.5 pound iPad replaces about 35 pounds of paper saving an estimated $1.2 million worth of fuel per year.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty cool news, as I&rsquo;m sure these savings will immediately be passed on to customers.\u00a0 Oh, and &lt;Insert obligatory comment about the requirement to turn off electronic devices on airliners.&gt; :-p<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAA approves iPads in the cockpit? American Airlines recently conducted successful tests of iPads loaded with electronic charts.\u00a0 ZDNet writes that the FAA will now likely grant full approval for airlines to make use of iPads as replacements for paper books, charts, and other documents.\u00a0 According to Seattle Pi, &ldquo;a 1.5 pound iPad replaces about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/faa-approves-ipads-in-the-cockpit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FAA approves iPads in the cockpit?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}