India's Jet Airways Latest Taker Of e-Enabled System

Boeing and Jet Airways of Mumbai, India, announced Wednesday 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 all 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.

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