A Usability Study for Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) Flight Planning Applications on Tablet Devices for Ab-initio Pilots

Determination of Takeoff and Landing Distances Using an iPad Performance Application for the Diamond DA40

“…The newly burgeoning market of general aviation EFB applications is also expanding to performance calculations. ForeFlight Mobile is a very popular EFB application for GA pilots and has been found to have the most usable software design when compared with competitors (Schwartzentruber, 2017). Software such as Foreflight was first used to replace sectional charts and low enroute IFR charts, but the capabilities of these EFB applications are growing.…”