Tag archive: pilot

American Airlines is reported to be the first carrier to receive authorization from the Federal Aviation Authority allowing pilots to use iPads “in all phases of flight.” Pilots at United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are also known to be trying out Apple’s device during flights. But don't get the wrong idea here – they won't be swiping the screen to take off or tilting the iPad to the right to turn the plane in that direction.… Read More

United Airlines is the latest carrier to announce it will be handing iPads to its pilots. This isn’t so they can play Air Hockey against each other during quiet moments between take-off and landing, but so that they can get rid of heavy paper flight manuals. The move should make both the job of the pilots and the aircraft more efficient. Pilots working for United and Continental, which merged last year, will begin receiving iPads this month. By… Read More

It’s not exactly the way you’d want to receive flight instructions when you’re in the air, but it worked: the pilot of a twin-engine small plane in Ireland was guided into land by text messages. It came about after the plane, which was en route from Kerry to the Channel Islands last November and carrying five passengers, lost all electrical power, which included communications. With no alternative, the pilot used his… Read More

Time flies when you're having fun&helips;or when you're staring at a washed-out LCD screen trying to figure out if you need to go to an appointment or whether you've already missed it. Ten years ago, Palm Inc. introduced its first Pilot handheld mobile computer, successfully launching a market for portable PDAs that most analysts thought Apple had proven wasn't viable with the spectacularly expensive flop of its… Read More

Gotta admit: even a crufty old franchise like Law & Order can pull a smart marketing move once in a while. From now until its broadcast premiere on NBC March 3, the commercial-free pilot episode for the latest Law & Order spinoff series Conviction is available for free download from Apple's iTunes Music Store. The episode can be viewed in Apple's iTunes jukebox application and, of course, is compatible with Apple's… Read More

“Only students enrolled in certain classes will get the free gadgets. The school, which hoped the $300 players would enhance students' learning by allowing them to record lectures, capture oral notes and play language-training recordings, spent $500,000 on the pilot project. That covered the iPods, salary for an academic computing specialist and grants to faculty members who participated in the program.” Read more at… Read More

During the pilot, only pre-approved sellers will be able to list in eBay's Digital Downloads category. After 180 days we will evaluate the pilot and determine whether to enable other copyright ownersor resellers of downloadable media to list in eBay's Digital Downloads category if they meet certain criteria that will ensure copyright protection, service level agreements and safety, etc. Approved sellers in this pilot have… Read More