Some business aviation operators, like airlines and private pilots, are highly motivated to introduce or update installed or portable electronic flight bags (EFBs) in their flight decks. If they proceed, their large multi-engine, turbine-powered aircraft or other applicable regulatory factors may dictate they must comply with comprehensive airline-level requirements — with the built-in benefit of the latest expertise of aviation safety and human factors specialists. Others have latitude to use EFBs under self-compliance guidelines and to voluntarily adopt best practices in risk mitigation through hardware/software choices, policies, procedures, training and other considerations.
Those with latitude may benefit from a working familiarity with the airline-level requirements, and resources such as publicly available, pilot-generated safety reports. In the evolution of this technology, users first welcomed EFBs as a way to reduce or eliminate the need for paper aeronautical charts, di…
