<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1443335, April 2017

A320 captain reported concern about the flight crew's ability to access the QRH if both ipads were at a low state of charge.

Attributes
ACN	1443335
Time
Date	201704
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Tablet
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 15488 Flight Crew Type 11708
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

Narrative:

On approach and following a three leg day; captain's ipad charge at 8% and first officer's charge at 12%. With only one QRH onboard; any circumstances that would require a reference to the QRH in the ipad would have been rendered an impossibility. Although remote; situations such as an incapacity of the pilot in possession of the QRH; combined with a need to reference both navigational charts and the QRH; would be impossible to execute at a charge of 8% or 12% while still having enough charge to reference all charts to the gate. Without the ability to charge the ipad while airborne; having no paper copies of the QRH is definitely premature and unsafe.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 Captain reported concern about the flight crew's ability to access the QRH if both iPads were at a low state of charge.

Narrative: On approach and following a three leg day; Captain's iPad charge at 8% and First Officer's charge at 12%. With only one QRH onboard; any circumstances that would require a reference to the QRH in the iPad would have been rendered an impossibility. Although remote; situations such as an incapacity of the pilot in possession of the QRH; combined with a need to reference both navigational charts and the QRH; would be impossible to execute at a charge of 8% or 12% while still having enough charge to reference all charts to the gate. Without the ability to charge the iPad while airborne; having no paper copies of the QRH is definitely premature and unsafe.

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.