ATR to embrace paperless cockpit

Toulouse: ATR is intending to enable operators to move more easily towards paperless cockpits as part of an effort to further refine its turboprop models.
Filippo Bagnato, chief executive of the aircraft manufacturer, says that introduction of electronic flight-bag capabilities and extraction of additional performance from the ATR 42 and ATR 72 airframes are among the strategies envisaged for modernising the types.
Bagnato says that, because operators typically use ATRs on short sectors, increasing the aircraft’s speed is a waste of time.
ATR would rather focus on passenger comfort, he says, such as the in-flight entertainment being developed in response to demand from Asian carriers Kingfisher Airlines and Pakistan International Airlines.
11/07/06 David Kaminski-Morrow/Flight International

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