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Electronic Flight Bag is one of the biggest screens, right? And that's used for navigation, which is largely strategic, not tactical.


I'd love for someone who's in the industry or an actual pilot to comment on this because I'm frankly not sure about what common scope AFBs have on commercial airliners, and what the backup procedures are if they fail. For private pilots, I know bringing an iPad up is common these days, but I think (and sure hope) commercial flight is a lot more risk averse and slow to adopt these things without thorough procedure.


80 to 90% of airlines worldwide use EFBs, based on iPad or Microsoft Surface.




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