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Air India goes digital, to provide pilots with iPads

 Air India has now decided to to give iPads to its pilots to access operation manuals in place of printed manuals to its pilots.

Kumar Vikram

NEW DELHI: Air India has now decided to give iPads to its pilots to access operation manuals in place of printed manuals to its pilots.

Officials said this initiative is a step towards digitisation. Officials said that ipads will be provided to individual pilots and administrative team of A 320 fleet comprising 78 aircrafts and replacement of sets will be done every five year or earlier in case of a significant change of technology or operating system. 

A-I is using generic mount instead of operation manual of (Airbus) mount due to lower the cost.  

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