Top portable hardware for electronic flight bags

摘要

The ecosystem of aviation apps that run on portable devices changed this year, with the news that Boeing purchased the developer of ForeFlight, probably the most popular electronic flight bag (EFB) app for pilots. This not only underscored ForeFlight's growing use by professional pilots but also Boeing unit Jeppesen's acknowledgment that its own EFB apps were not as popular as ForeFlight. Of the three platforms for portable devices used by pilots, Apple's iPad remains the most popular, in part because ForeFlight is designed only to run on Apple's iOS (operating system). Android-based devices are in second place, followed by Microsoft's Surface tablet/laptop, which runs on Microsoft's Windows OS.