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Boeing's Commercial Aviation Services Crew Information Services group and
Malaysia Airlines have announced plans to install the Jeppesen Electronic
Flight Bag (EFB) on two Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ERs. The airline will be the
first carrier in the Asia/Pacific region to use the EFB.
Malaysia Airlines will have an EFB system installed, certified and delivered on the
two 777s it has on order. The airline will receive its first EFB-equipped 777 in
November. Malaysia Airlines now operates 15 777s.
"We are excited to be a customer for the EFB," said Dato' Capt. M Nawawi
Awang, senior general manager flight operations for Malaysia Airlines. "It will
help our fleet of 777s -- already the most advanced aircraft in the sky -- reach
even greater levels efficiency and reliability."
The EFB contains all documentation and forms that pilots carry -- aeronautical
maps and charts, manuals or fault reporting and operations, minimum equipment
lists and logbooks -- in digital format, and puts them at the crew's fingertips.
EFB also includes an on-board performance tool that allows the pilot to instantly
calculate the ideal speed and engine setting for an aircraft, in any weather, on
any runway, with any payload. Such calculations could increase the payload of a
777 taking off from a wet runway by as much as 9,000 kg (20,000 lbs.).
In addition, the EFB includes an Airport Moving Map application, which
combines high-fidelity, geo-referenced airport taxi charts and precise navigational signals to show flight crews exactly where they are on the surface
of an airport. It also gives flight crews a viewer for cabin surveillance systems,
helping meet new and anticipated regulatory requirements.
Malaysia Airlines will use a hard-mounted "Class 3" version of the EFB
comprising Jeppesen software, and electronics and display hardware from Astronautics Corp. of America. Boeing will work with the two suppliers to find the
ideal configurations for EFB aboard its aircraft.
Installation of an EFB gives Malaysia Airlines a first step into the future of the
e-enabled air transport system. Boeing intends to offer content, applications, and
services that connect all the data generated by an entire flight operation -- in the
air, on the ground and in the hangar -- meaningful to all users, including pilots,
mechanics, flight attendants, operations departments, airport users and other
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