MUMBAI: Indigo has been granted Less Paper Cockpit (lpc) approval by means of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (dgca) which means that now the airline don’t need to raise the heavy `Technical Paper Manuals’ that weigh about 40 kgs in its plane cockpit.
“In continuation of the LPC programme, IndiGo has now been authorized by DGCA to remove the remaining set of onboard paper manuals. The robustness of our processes, iOS ecosystem, and world practices followed with trials and safety risk assessment were proving points for the regulator to authorize IndiGo’s LPC programme,” stated the airline. In 2015, IndiGo turned into the primary within the area to release Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) lowering 25 kgs of paper on its Airbus fleet and changing paper charts and manuals with iPads.
“The adoption rate was phenomenal, with digital manuals making it easier for the crew to maneuver, with added hyperlinks and color graphics. Updating manuals became a far simpler process digitally, compared to the days it used to take to update paper charts in the complete fleet. This initiative has not only decluttered the cockpit since 2015 but also helped the airline to reduce its carbon footprint annually to the tune of 2500 tons approximately,” it stated.
Aakash Bhatnagar, AVP- Flight Operations Support at IndiGo, led the crew in control of the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) programme. The effectiveness of the onboard iPads ensured that within the final 8 years of operations the onboard paper manuals weren’t being utilized by the flight staff and handiest added useless weight to the plane, the airline stated.
“In continuation of the LPC programme, IndiGo has now been authorized by DGCA to remove the remaining set of onboard paper manuals. The robustness of our processes, iOS ecosystem, and world practices followed with trials and safety risk assessment were proving points for the regulator to authorize IndiGo’s LPC programme,” stated the airline. In 2015, IndiGo turned into the primary within the area to release Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) lowering 25 kgs of paper on its Airbus fleet and changing paper charts and manuals with iPads.
“The adoption rate was phenomenal, with digital manuals making it easier for the crew to maneuver, with added hyperlinks and color graphics. Updating manuals became a far simpler process digitally, compared to the days it used to take to update paper charts in the complete fleet. This initiative has not only decluttered the cockpit since 2015 but also helped the airline to reduce its carbon footprint annually to the tune of 2500 tons approximately,” it stated.
Aakash Bhatnagar, AVP- Flight Operations Support at IndiGo, led the crew in control of the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) programme. The effectiveness of the onboard iPads ensured that within the final 8 years of operations the onboard paper manuals weren’t being utilized by the flight staff and handiest added useless weight to the plane, the airline stated.