A320
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Total 15488; Flight Crew Type 11708
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft
On approach and following a three leg day; Captain's iPad charge at 8% and First Officer's charge at 12%. With only one QRH onboard; any circumstances that would require a reference to the QRH in the iPad would have been rendered an impossibility. Although remote; situations such as an incapacity of the pilot in possession of the QRH; combined with a need to reference both navigational charts and the QRH; would be impossible to execute at a charge of 8% or 12% while still having enough charge to reference all charts to the gate. Without the ability to charge the iPad while airborne; having no paper copies of the QRH is definitely premature and unsafe.
A320 Captain reported concern about the flight crew's ability to access the QRH if both iPads were at a low state of charge.