The European Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, has awarded Wizz Air the approval to use the electronic Technical Logbook (eTLB) of Lufthansa’s AVIATAR in the airline’s daily operations. The paperless operation, with the new seamless digital pilot-to-maintenance collaboration application, proved to be stable in the three months since the fleet-wide roll-out on more than 140 aircraft registered in Hungary. According to Lufthansa, the assumed reductions have already materialized as calls in Wizz Air’s Maintenance Control Center dropped by more than 25%. This has proved the positive impact of the application in the daily operational life of pilots and maintenance crews.
AVIATAR’s Technical Logbook offers prefilled text blocks and automated input masks. The logbook enables pilots of the aircraft to record technical issues in real-time, which later are synchronized when an internet connection is available. The availability of the data, therefore helps in reducing the manual efforts by up to 50% and improves data quality as well as transparency. The new solution works with any hardware device (e.g. tablet, smartphone, or desktop computer) and can provide the pilots with access to aircraft status anywhere and anytime.