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can someone pls explain me this


This one is from www.boeing.com


SEATTLE, May 17, 2006 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Jet Airways of Mumbai, India, today announced an order to install Boeing's Class 3 Electronic Flight Bag on 10 new 777-300ERs. Delivery of the planes is set to begin in early 2007. Jet Airways will be the first airline in India to operate a Class 3 EFB.


EFB is a core technology in Boeing's vision of an e-Enabled air-transport system in which data, information and knowledge can be shared easily across an aviation enterprise.


"More airlines are recognizing that EFB offers not just immediate efficiencies from a paperless cockpit and improved communications, but future flexibility," said Dan da Silva, vice president of Sales and Marketing for Boeing Commercial Aviation Services. "India is among the world's most dynamic aviation markets today, and we are thrilled to have, in Jet Airways, one of that market's top airlines affirming the efficiency, functionality and flexibility of Boeing's EFB."


Certified for all phases of operation on the ground and in the air, Boeing's Class 3 EFB is integrated with an airplane's avionics. Also, data is available to both certified and operationally approved programs.


Using software developed by Boeing, its subsidiary, Jeppesen, and Optimization Technologies, as well as hardware from Astronautics Corp. of America (ACA), the Boeing EFB digitally delivers vital charts and manuals that pilots need to fly an airplane, giving them quick access to the information they require. One available option is an onboard performance tool that gives pilots the ideal speeds and engine settings for an aircraft, in any weather, on any runway, with any payload, and can create vast gains in efficiency, range and payload.


Installation of a multi-functional EFB is only part of what the Boeing team provides the airline, however. Jeppesen is focused on ensuring that any receiving enterprise has the infrastructure, training, systems and ability to develop additional content to take advantage of the EFB capabilities and reap the benefits of a paperless cockpit. These are among the items critical to a successful EFB implementation and together represent a major competitive advantage for Boeing in persuading customers to choose the Boeing team's Class 3 EFB.


The Boeing solution provides ample computing power for additional capabilities, as they become available, such as enhanced fault reporting and electronic logbook, real-time weather information, en route moving maps, and real-time Notice To Airmen (NOTAM) information. In addition, the open-architecture design of the Class 3 EFB and its integration into the airplane's larger systems give it unmatched potential for even third-party software designers to create exciting applicati



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Does this help?


Source: India i-Tech


"An Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is an electronic display system intended primarily for cockpit/flightdeck or cabin use.
EFB devices can display a variety of aviation data or perform basic calculations (e.g., performance data, fuel calculations, etc.). In the past, some of these functions were traditionally accomplished using paper references.


The FAA says Class 1 and 2 EFBs are considered Portable Electronic Devices. Class 3 EFB systems are considered installed equipment.


Class 1 EFB Systems may be used on the ground and during flight as a source of supplemental
information. Class 2 EFBs may be used to display flight critical pre-composed information such as charts or approach plates for navigation. Required flight information should always be presented during critical phases of flight.
Class 3 EFB systems may include all Class 1 and Class 2 EFB hosted applications which provide aircraft, engine and component system health monitoring and in-depth interactive information that may be used for situational awareness or navigation.


Class 3 EFB systems are considered aircraft systems which provide extensive information which may be used for communication, navigation, and/or surveillance."



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definitely does... atleast a first for an Indian operator... and would definitely help given our barely modern airport facilities and equipments...

you need to listen to BOM Tower frequency and the entertaining repeats from Air Deccan pilots to know why situational awareness and additional systems can do so much for the effectiveness of procedures and benefit the airline

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the thread is being locked as insufficient links have been provided.  Also, you don't have to paste the whole article, just the highlights.  Those interested can go to the link to read the full text. If you have any question, then please get back to me.


And feel free to start this thread again with exact links.


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