The iPad won approval from U.S. regulators to display navigational charts for some charter pilots, “a step that may speed the end of the decades-old tradition of paper maps in the cockpit,” according to “Bloomberg Businessweek” (http://macte.ch/Rj2VH).
With the Federal Aviation Administration endorsing iPads in a test project at Executive Jet Management, a unit of Warren Buffett’s NetJets, the way is open for pilots at airlines and other commercial carriers to seek authorization for the devices, Les Dorr, an agency spokesman, told the publication. iPad use by professional pilots would support Apple’s goal of winning more business buyers.
The company’s total corporate sales may rise 51% to US$11.3 billion in 2011, said Brian Marshall, a Gleacher & Co. analyst, told “Bloomberg Businessweek.” Revenue was $76.3 billion last year.