Touchscreens will be all over the cockpit of the future


Skift Take

The technology and safety issues may take a few years to figure out, but paperless cockpit is already becoming a reality with pilots adopting iPads, and full touchscreen minus the knobs will be coming in a few years, no doubt.
By the end of the decade, says Thales, one of the world’s largest makers of aircraft cockpits... [P]ilots could start dispensing with buttons, trackballs and keypads for performing many routine flyi