Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Confusion; Human-Machine Interface; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Chart Or Publication; Manuals; Company Policy
The new manual contained in EFB publications has what appears to be guidance for replacing Jeppesen 10-7 pages with 'information pages'. This information and the 'information pages' manual is not supported with core guidance in other documentation; or even the EFB manual. All those documents still regard the 10-7 as the base document. An additional problem with the 'information pages' is their excessively distracting steps required to bring the 'information pages' data into use by the Pilot. Currently; you just open the JeppFD -Pro and select the Station button for the airfield you are viewing. Then; one finger swipe between pages. With the new 'information pages' procedure; which will use two different programs; you must back out of JeppFD -Pro; open another program; open the documents library; scroll up or down to locate the airfield you are needing to view the Station information for; select that page; and then either back out of the program or four-finger swipe over to JeppFD -Pro. Every time you four-finger swipe into this program; the 'information pages' page reverts to the default size; which is usually too small. Every time you four-finger swipe into JeppFD -Pro; it slowly reopens and opens to the default size; not the size you scrolled to. So unlike the 10-7 page in JeppFD -Pro; you need to resize the 'information pages' and Jeppesen page every time; four-finger swipe; and utilize a six-step process to open a new Station's 'information pages'.There needs to be a bulletin detailing how the 'information pages' will be used and then a bulletin changing the company and aircraft documents as required to support the use of the 'information pages'. The 'information pages' information must be reincorporated into the Jeppesen program JeppFD-Pro. That was the way it was tested and approved by the FAA not by using multiple programs requiring double-digit gyrations to switch between views; which is both distracting and additive in making the environment unsafe.
Pilot reported that the new 'information pages' procedure in the EFB for airport/company station information is not tied into other company documentation and is clumsy to use.