08/TECH/2023/B777

Effective:
TECH CIRCULAR: EFB Portable vs EFB Installed 08/05/23
Differences

FLEET  B777

REASON FOR Highlight to crew differences between Portable and existing installed EFB
ISSUE features

1. PURPOSE
This circular is issued to act as a ready reckoner guide for Crew to highlight differences
between Portable and existing installed EFB features.
Crew / Flight Dispatchers are advised to familiarize themselves with the changes.

2. Enclosures:

Installed vs Portable EFB Differences

Prepared by Checked by Approved and Issued by

(Mr Darshan Sawant) (Mr Devendra Shrivastav)

Sr Mgr Performance Lead- Flt Ops Engg
and EFB
( Capt. TPS Dhaliwal )
Head Flight Operations

All information contained herein is private and controlled and is the property of Limited.
 FO/OC/23/XX Portable vs Installed EFB differences

1.0 OVERVIEW

The equivalent portable EFB applications installed on IPad are as listed below:

Function Installed EFB Portable EFB

Performance Onboard Performance Tool (OPT) Onboard Performance Tool (OPT)

Navigation Charts Airport Maps / Terminal / Enroute Jeppesen FD Pro X

charts

Document Browser EDOCS MDM Document Browser

Speed / Length / weight / Unit+ : Speed / Length / weight /

Pilot Utilities temperature / volume / fuel temperature / volume / fuel
volume to weight convertor(s) ; volume to weight convertor(s);
(Non mandatory) Calculator ; Stopwatch ; timezone
convertor IOS Calculator: calculator

Apple clock: stopwatch, timezone

Crew to select the respective application.

All information contained herein is private and controlled and is the property of Limited.
2.0 ONBOARD PERFORMANCE TOOL (OPT)

The Layout, features and functionality of OPT on IPad are exactly similar to the installed version. The differences in terms of invoking
specific action and result depictions are as detailed below

Function Installed EFB Portable EFB

Launch: select the application button on the MAIN MENU Launch : click on OPT app on Home screen
Launch / screen.
Exit Exit: Double click Home button and swipe application up
Exit: select the MENU bezel button to return to the MAIN
MENU screen.

Acquiring Possible in B787 upon flight initialization, the OPT application Currently NOT POSSIBLE to retrieve FMS data as Portable EFB is not connected
FMS data retrieves some or all of the following information from the to aircraft network wirelessly.
FMS if one is available:
• Origin airport Crew to manually enter the required data
• Destination airport
• Outside air temperature (OAT)
• Altimeter setting
• Departure runway
• Gross weight
Performance database specific to the tail registration is Crew to select the specific tail which will load respective variant database for
Tail specific loaded onto installed EFB. OPT computations.
data
selection
 Function Installed EFB Portable EFB

Application Was done using the Data Load button on MAIN MENU to load
, policy and ADEL-eligible data for the Onboard Performance Tool (OPT). Invoked via Action menu in application which allows users to check for
database updates that have been staged to the cloud by the administrator.
update
 Function Installed EFB Portable EFB
Single colour display Colour coding as below

Takeoff
graphical
result

All engine Actual gradient in white and required in yellow colour Actual gradient in Green dashed and required in white colour
climb
gradient
graphical
result
3. NAVIGATION CHARTS

The differences in terms of invoking specific action and result depictions are as detailed below

Function Installed EFB Portable EFB

Launch: select the application button on the Launch : click on FD PRo app on Home screen
Launch / Exit MAIN MENU screen.
Exit: Double click Home button and swipe application up
Exit: select the MENU bezel button to return to
the MAIN MENU screen.
Database effectivity
IDENT screen displays effectivity. If any of the Crew can ascertain that the application is current by going to:
databases are out of date; the application Settings > Update page.
displays a This is a pre-requirement to use the application. Crew shall not use
MEMO notification the application in case the same is out of date.

Brightness and Night Theme SHOW MENU > DAYMODE or SHOW MENU > App theme can be toggled from Settings > App Theme.
NIGHT MODE to toggle Brightness can be adjusted as per requirements
 Function Installed EFB Portable EFB
Terminal Charts Clipping Terminal Charts supports the following chart When you create a new flight, FliteDeck Pro X displays a list of those
types: charts for the selected airport and automatically selects the taxi chart
• Airport for the origin airport.
• Departure
• Arrival Tap an available chart type button (REF, CO, STAR, APP, TAXI, or SID).
• Approach To select a chart, tap the circle next to the chart title.
• Chart Change Notices and text (such as FliteDeck Pro X places a check mark next to the selected chart and
airport information) adds the number of selected charts below the chart type button.
• Customer-specific content created with the
EFB Content Packager

You can view a chart from the CHART CLIP

screen, the EDIT CHART CLIP screen, the SHOW
ALL
CHARTS screen, and the PREVIEW CHART
screen.

Enroute Application Enhances situational awareness by displaying a To view the enroute map, tap the Enroute Theme button.
moving map.
• View information on a moving map.
• Search for navigational objects.
• Retrieve navigational data.
• Create, modify, and load ad-hoc routes

Launch: select the application button on the

• High IFR: provides aeronautical information to facilitate enroute
MAIN MENU screen.
instrument navigation, generally above FL180.
• Low IFR: provides aeronautical information to facilitate enroute
Exit: select the MENU bezel button to return to
instrument navigation, generally below FL180.
the MAIN MENU screen.
• VFR: displays cultural information, including roads, city outlines, and
obstacle information. This display is not intended as a replacement for
* the application is designed
 to enhance situational awareness and is not VFR navigation charts and does not contain all visual and aeronautical
intended as a navigational tool. features.
The moving map helps the flight crew to avoid restricted / prohibited
/ danger areas.

* the application is designed

to enhance situational awareness and is not intended as a
navigational tool.
Zoom controls and Panning Zoom controls on the EFB bezel to generate a
more detailed or less detailed view of the map.
User can also pan the map. When you touch
the edge of the map, the pan arrow appears. If Zoom
you keep To zoom in and out, use two fingers in a pinching gesture.
pressing, the screen will autopan. User can pan
the map in any direction, in both Navigation
mode and Plan Route mode. The application
continuously moves the map in the direction
of the pan and renders the map completely
each time User remove your finger from the Touch
screen. The application renders minimal detail Touch an object on the map to view more information about it.
during the pan and does not draw details such Depending on the type of object selected, you may also be able to add
as airways, most airspaces, and labels until or remove it from your route.
User removes finger from the touch screen.

Double Tap
To recenter the map over your route - or resize a chart to full chart
view, doubletap the display with one finger.
 Function
Airport Moving Map Function
Installed EFB Portable EFB
Three finger swipe to move between selected
charts
Swipe with three fingers to move between selected charts.
The Airport Moving Map (AMM) application AMM feature available within FD Pro app.
acquires data from the airplane’s 429 data bus ‘Ownship’ to be enabled in FDPro global settings under App Settings
to indicate airplane position and heading on in Device Settings.
dynamic airport maps. The application’s high-
resolution maps graphically portray runways,
taxiways, and other airport features to support
taxi or taxi-related operations.
AMM databases are associated with a date
upon which the database becomes effective.
Activated in AMMD tab: Airport Moving Maps improve pilot
situational awareness during ground movements through own-ship
depiction on highly detailed EFB maps. Dynamic rendering of run-
ways, taxiways, stop bars and other airport structures im-proves
runway safety, particularly at large or unfamiliar airports or during
times of poor visibility.
4. EFB DOCUMENT BROWSER

The document browser hosts library of the applicable company and OEM manuals, circulars and other information shared with crew.
Differences between Installed EDOC browser and MDM browser on portable EFB are as detailed below

Function Installed EFB Portable EFB

Able to host in xml / html / pdf Only pdf documents available.
Content Type depending on the document type

Document effectivity Upon flight initialization, the EFB The MDM library App is a document browser that contains the
Document Browser application documents that are required by crew for day to day operations. Such
automatically selects the currently documents include Boeing documents such as AFM, FCOM, FCTM, QRH
effective revision of each and documents such as the company operations manual, MEL, SEP
document according to its manual etc.
effectivity date range and the flight The EFB manager provides updates as and when the documents /
start date as reported by the EFB. information hosted in the App is amended. Each update is given a
In some cases, all uploaded
revisions of a document might be
out of date, more than one revision
might be effective on the current
date, or one revision might be
effective at flight start date and the
second revision might be effective
later in the flight. In such cases, the
application displays a MEMO
notification upon flight initialization
and prompts you to select the
appropriate document.
unique number. The updates are available for download over the
internet from the cloud server. Notification of update is sent to the
crew via email on the company email ID.
All users are required to update their devices at home or at layover
hotel as soon as such email is received. The iPad is required to be
connected to a strong internet connection for downloading the update.
The crew is required to verify that their iPad is updated with the latest
document before each flight.