Lufthansa FlightTraining (LFT) has developed a laptop-based mobile training and flight information system that is expected to reduce flight preparation time as well as classroom training days. Developed jointly with LTU International Airways and German Novell systems integrator T&A Systeme, SkyBook is a digital database of flight manuals and online training stored on each crew member's laptop.
SkyBook laptops can be updated at airport terminals, or via the internet, and as the first user LTU expects the system to save at least $1 million a year by streamlining delivery of flight-manual revisions. Crews are also expected to spend less time in classrooms as they can use the laptops to access training courses from anywhere, at any time, and stay up to date with flight manual revisions as a result.
LFT has deployed the SkyBook infrastructure at seven German airports. Flight data, manuals and computer-based training are distributed to airport terminals from a central server, allowing German airline LTU to deliver revisions to manuals in minutes rather than the two weeks required for paper distribution.
Source: Flight International
