Jetstar pilots to get iPads JETSTAR pilots in Australia and New Zealand will get iPads as electronic flight bags from July. The iPads will replace the large and heavy paper manuals carried by pilots and are expected to save several hundred thousand dollars a year in fuel costs due to reduced aircraft weight. Jetstar said pilots already used the devices to help calculate weight and balance of the aircraft and they will readily be updated with flight manuals, airport charts and other information required by tech crew. "We are one of the first low-cost carriers in the Asia-Pacific to use this technology," a spokesman said.