Thierry Dubois is a freelance writer specializing in helicopters, business aviation and aerospace technology. He earned a degree in fluid dynamics from an engineering school in Toulouse, France in the mid-1990s. At an unexpected crossroads, he found his first job in journalism. In 1997, he started working for French aerospace weekly Air &amp; Cosmos in Paris. This lasted until 2000, when he moved south to Lyons. He then became a freelancer, working for various aerospace publications and has been part of the AIN team since late 2000. In addition to writing about business aviation, Thierry shares responsibility for the rotorcraft section. He also is a regular on-site writer for AIN’s daily editions at international airshows such as the Paris, Farnborough, Dubai and Singapore shows, as well as at EBACE in Geneva.
In 2007, he won the Honeywell award for “Best systems or technology submission” at the Aerospace journalist of the year awards. In 2013, he won an Aerospace Media Award for the "Best Safety, Training &amp; Simulation Submission."
In other activities, Thierry moderates international conferences on aviation technology topics. Thierry is married and has three children, who seem to begin enjoying the mountains–as their parents do.

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Lufthansa Systems (LHS) is here introducing the electronic flight folder (EFF), a new feature in its Lido eFlightBag that allows crewmembers to download last-minute flight briefing documents as simply as airport charts.
The EFF incorporates briefing documents in digital format–flight plan, Notams, weather data, fuel load figures, etc. Pilots can either download the documents from a briefing station to a laptop or a USB stick, or access them via a special Web interface. They can mark and comment on the documents as usual. If a crewmember marks a spot on his virtual chart, it is immediately visible to his colleague. According to its promoters, the system makes briefings easier and saves paper.
“We are introducing the EFF here at the Dubai Airshow because lots of Asian and Middle Eastern airlines attend it–these carriers have large numbers of latest-generation aircraft, which our EFF is perfectly suited to,” senior v-p of airline operations solutions Marc Szepan explained. Designers took care of having the eFlightBag OEM-independent–it works on Airbus, Boeing and could work on other aircraft as well, Szepan said. The EFF does not depend on the cockpit’s avionics, he added.

Lufthansa Systems introduces EFB that downloads briefing documents

Lufthansa Systems (LHS) is here introducing the electronic flight folder (EFF), a new feature in its Lido eFlightBag that allows crewmembers to download la

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