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Virgin America Picks Nexis EFBs

Astronautics EFBs are installed in more than 1,000 aircraft

The Astronautics Nexis EFB adds modern touchscreen avionics to older cockpits.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

January 19, 2015

Although tablet-based electronic flight bags (EFBs) are replacing paper charts in many business aviation and airline cockpits, there is still a robust market for Class 3 certified EFBs, and these are especially important for displaying new features that are part of the NextGen transformation of the National Airspace System. Many cockpits still are equipped with older avionics that cannot display NextGen features such as ADS-B in Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI) and other applications, and certified EFBs remain a viable solution for these aircraft.

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