Motion Computing’s new LS800 may be the cockpit tablet that finally delivers mass appeal. It fits an approach plate nearly perfectly.

by Jonathan Spencer

Have you ever had an approach plate flutter to the floor of the cockpit when you were trying to clip it to the yoke? Do you long for a display in the cockpit that will easily depict datalink weather and do flight planning, too? If so, you may be a candidate for an electronic flight bag, a fashionable name for what’s really nothing but a notebook computer customized for aviation.

The EFB is the logical extension of the great electronic revolution. The venerable paper chart is slowly going the way of the steam gauge and the VOR. It’s not a difficult logical leap: Download a few approach plates to your…