The Challenge
Major airlines now utilize Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) to save money
and streamline updates of ight manuals. Instead of providing
paper copies of ight manuals and operation procedural documents,
digital copies can be stored on a tablet and updated easily. Using
tablets can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in fuel costs
and printing services.1
Digital ight manuals are quickly becoming
an international trend in the aviation industry.
With the migration to digital, however, comes the inevitable need
for stringent compliance and security measures in the skies. In the
U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allows tablet EFBs,
but only under strict supervision to ensure passenger safety and
restrict sensitive data falling into the wrong hands. In Canada,
Transport Canada allows EFBs, but one hard copy of the plans must
be on the plane at all times as well. To meet these mandates, while
enjoying the cost-saving measures tablets can deliver, aviation rms
are turning to the proven AirWatch® Enterprise Mobility Management
(EMM) platform.
Flair Airlines needed a way to distribute ight manuals, company
documents, internal memos, ight packages and weather apps to
tablets. Flair Air chose AirWatch to provide secure content and
application management.