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Air carrier captain believes that the ipad battery life is too short for international flying and laments the demise of paper charts and manuals.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1251809 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201504 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.ARTCC |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Tablet |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 20000 Flight Crew Type 5000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe |
Narrative:
The new ipad battery life is too short. I left the hotel with the ipad at 100% charge. All apps were closed. When I got to airport; ipad was showing 95% - I then turned on wifi to flight plan as the overseas connectivity on cellular mode was hanging up and not useable. By the time I had finished flight planning with the ipad and was heading for the aircraft; it was showing 82%. I used it for cockpit set up and briefings and taxi charts discussion. At pushback it was showing 71% - now in airplane mode. At top of climb I noticed the ipad was now showing 58% - then; buy mid atlantic it was down to 42% - the only apps open were FM; fom and jepp FD pro.I do not consider the ipad is useable as an alternative to jeppesen documents. I also urge a return to the cockpit of the fom; FM and wom in paper form. I was getting very concerned about losing ability to consult the company publications for reference purposes. This is not a viable alternative to paper pubs. Sadly submitted.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air Carrier Captain believes that the iPad battery life is too short for international flying and laments the demise of paper charts and manuals.
Narrative: The new iPad battery life is too short. I left the hotel with the iPad at 100% charge. All apps were closed. When I got to airport; iPad was showing 95% - I then turned on WiFi to flight plan as the overseas connectivity on cellular mode was hanging up and not useable. By the time I had finished flight planning with the iPad and was heading for the aircraft; it was showing 82%. I used it for cockpit set up and briefings and taxi charts discussion. At pushback it was showing 71% - now in airplane mode. At top of climb I noticed the iPad was now showing 58% - then; buy mid Atlantic it was down to 42% - The only apps open were FM; FOM and Jepp FD Pro.I do not consider the iPad is useable as an alternative to Jeppesen documents. I also urge a return to the cockpit of the FOM; FM and WOM in paper form. I was getting very concerned about losing ability to consult the company publications for reference purposes. This is not a viable alternative to paper pubs. Sadly submitted.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.