How many pilots are using technology

We keep an updated Garmin 295 in our Skyhawk along with paper sectionals,
Low-Altitude Enroute charts, and plates. I use the AOPA flight planner and
TripPack on my laptop to print plates for trips outside the local area not
covered by my plate subscription. I don't see a time when paper goes
completely away, at least as a real-time backup.

For in-flight diverts, I find that I can page through a bound book of plates
much faster than I can jiggle the menus and buttons on the 295, so until
voice recognition is inexpensively available and the equipment & its power
supplies are totally reliable, redundant, and fail-safe, paper will have a
place in my airborne environment.

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I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

Cheap handheld GPS and paper charts. No handheld radio. Not even
headsets. Paint job will have to wait. Engine is new. Money goes into
hours in the air. That's what it's all about for me. YMMV.
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Gene Seibel
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Because I fly, I envy no one.


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I would like to know, how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts. How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

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How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?


It is an old joke, but the answer is that; 'we will see the paper-less
cockpit (and office) the same day we have a paper-less bathroom.'

ISTM that computer usage has resulted in more paper and not less.

Happy landings,

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how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts.

I would say, the vast majority.

How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

Remember the paperless office? Rephrase your question: How many people
are using computers in their office? Next question: When will the
paperless office come?

Paper has this really great user interface...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

No handheld radio. Not even
headsets.

I'd reccomend at least $30 hearing protectors. You'll save more in ear
exams.

Jose
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The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
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Change FAA to Microsoft, and you have to find something longer than "Never".

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How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

As long as the FAA's involved, I'm going to go with "never." :-)

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:57:15 -0600, Newps wrote:

I'm not so worried about reliability as I am ease of use.

Because reliability is my requirement, I've never looked at the specifics
of the UIs of these EFBs. But I should think that they could be made
quite easy to use.

No?

- Andrew

Paperless office does not mean absolutely no paper. It just means every
document is stored electronically, and we can print only what we need.
In that respect, I think we already have a paperless office. What
fraction of electronic documents do you think we normally print out? I
suspect it is around 10% or less. Imagine what would happen if we
printed all the data that is on every computer.




Thomas Borchert wrote:
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how many of us, pilots are using the current
technology out there to our benifit. I'm talking about GPS, E-Flight
Bag, E-Aviation Charts.

I would say, the vast majority.

How long do you think before paper-less
cockpits become the standard?

Remember the paperless office? Rephrase your question: How many people
are using computers in their office? Next question: When will the
paperless office come?

Paper has this really great user interface...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

What
fraction of electronic documents do you
think we normally print out? I
suspect it is around 10% or less.

Maybe so, but there are ten times as many documents as there were,
mainly because it's so easy to generate them. And we print out the
silliest things, and we print out stuff because the software gives us no
choice (like TurboTax's "smart worksheets" - don't get me started), and
we print them out multple times to get them right, and we print
everything on full sheets of paper, no matter how big the document.

If you had electronic charts in the cockpit, how many of you would print
them out for the approach. I would.

Jose
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The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
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They are easy to use, just inconvenient. Going to the other side of the
map, scrolling down because the page doesn't fit, etc. A computer can
display a page as nice as paper but it may take longer to access the
information.

Andrew Gideon wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:57:15 -0600, Newps wrote:


I'm not so worried about reliability as I am ease of use.


Because reliability is my requirement, I've never looked at the specifics
of the UIs of these EFBs. But I should think that they could be made
quite easy to use.

No?

- Andrew