What Is An Electronic flight Bag

Recent advances in technology and miniaturization have seen the development of electronic flight bags (EFBs), which has electronic manuals and documents, including automated calculation and navigation tools. A study done by United Airlines, found a normal paper-based flight bag contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot (never really noticed). The deployment of the EFB system running on Apple iPads saved a whopping 16 million sheets of paper a year! Including saving 326,000 gallons of jet fuel because of the reduced weight on board the aircraft.