PILOT’S GUIDE Let Use Drive Pilots’ Selection Roots of a Phenomenon: The Many Benefits of the Simplest EFB It is interesting how pilots quickly scooped up the earliest portable GPS navigators two decades ago but were contrastingly slow to embrace the EFB. The potential advantages were largely available from day one, such as: • Operational benefits. • Organizational benefits. • Monetary benefits. • Environmental benefits. • Health and wellness benefits. You’ll get no argument about the last item on the list from anyone who ever lugged around a chart case or flight bag of backbreaking mass due mainly to pounds of piled paper. For decades, pilots depended on paper products to safely and efficiently fly their missions. En route charts, terminal procedure plates, standard instrument departure procedures and standard terminal arrival procedures totaled thousands of pages weighing 12, 15 or 20 pounds, depending on the binders for each region’s approach plates. Along with the weight loss, the other benefits add up. Operationally, for example, EFBs make it easier to manage and retrieve needContinued on following page… - 55 -