Austrian Airlines has made the choice to ditch their paper flight manuals with Microsoft's Surface Pro 3, a couple of months after the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved the use of the Windows 8.1 tablet as a Electronic Flight Bag replacement.



From Windows Central:

The change means that the airline will offer its pilots a better way to access their information while in the cockpit while also saving on weight and fuel costs compared to the bulky paper manuals. Austrian Airlines said:

"The high performance, the large screen, and the – in comparison – very low weight make the tablet from Microsoft an ideal work instrument for the flight crew. In the course of the project, Austrian has bought about 950 Surface Pro 3 tablets in total. The version chosen features 128 GB storage, an Intel i5 processor, and 4 GB RAM."

  Austrian Airlines chooses the Surface Pro 3 to replace paper flight manuals