Fellow AirWarriors,
I'm doing a Master's Research paper on the costs and incentives to switch from paper flight pubs to an electronic display device like an iPad.
I know some of you have made the switch, or have info into the situation, and I'd appreciate talking to some of you. If you have experience with this, or know some of the associated costs (or cost savings) of your unit switching to an iPad I would REALLY appreciate a PM or e-mail.
Specific things that come ot my mind are:
*Costs of acquiring devices
*Current costs of purchasing pubs throughout the year
*Costs of purchasing electronic versions of the pubs vice paper copies
*Costs savings of not having to ship boxes of new pubs to the squadron
*Ability/problems with updating pubs electronically when deployed
*Any problems you have actually experienced
*Airframe distinctive issues (Helo vs Jet vs Larger fixedwing)
I know this has been implemented in some places (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/air-force-buying-ipads-replace-flight-bags or http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/06/10/marine-aviators-new-weapon-the-ipad/)
Again, it's a "Cost Accounting" course in my masters program I'm writing this for. So, I'm not too much touching on the issues of security/EKMS concerns, warzone survivability, etc. I'm specifically trying to find some detailed numbers I can use to argue the monetary feasability of introduction. How much your squadron is spending on pubs, or how much the Navy is spending. Sorry to reach out on here, but it's only a 20 page paper... and the assignment has a two week turnaround. So, it's kind of a glossing over of the issue... but I'm legitimaterly interested in it as well, and may snowball this into a larger research issue down the road (although it looks like the Navy has already done some exhaustive research into the issue... I just cant find it!)
~Purdue
I'm doing a Master's Research paper on the costs and incentives to switch from paper flight pubs to an electronic display device like an iPad.
I know some of you have made the switch, or have info into the situation, and I'd appreciate talking to some of you. If you have experience with this, or know some of the associated costs (or cost savings) of your unit switching to an iPad I would REALLY appreciate a PM or e-mail.
Specific things that come ot my mind are:
*Costs of acquiring devices
*Current costs of purchasing pubs throughout the year
*Costs of purchasing electronic versions of the pubs vice paper copies
*Costs savings of not having to ship boxes of new pubs to the squadron
*Ability/problems with updating pubs electronically when deployed
*Any problems you have actually experienced
*Airframe distinctive issues (Helo vs Jet vs Larger fixedwing)
I know this has been implemented in some places (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/air-force-buying-ipads-replace-flight-bags or http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/06/10/marine-aviators-new-weapon-the-ipad/)
Again, it's a "Cost Accounting" course in my masters program I'm writing this for. So, I'm not too much touching on the issues of security/EKMS concerns, warzone survivability, etc. I'm specifically trying to find some detailed numbers I can use to argue the monetary feasability of introduction. How much your squadron is spending on pubs, or how much the Navy is spending. Sorry to reach out on here, but it's only a 20 page paper... and the assignment has a two week turnaround. So, it's kind of a glossing over of the issue... but I'm legitimaterly interested in it as well, and may snowball this into a larger research issue down the road (although it looks like the Navy has already done some exhaustive research into the issue... I just cant find it!)
~Purdue