Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
Well, perhaps going on record urging folks not to use their own iPads for company business would be a start. If the company can figure out a way to get us to buy our own devices, you can be sure they won't buy one for us. When a DALPA player comes out with your suggestion, I have to scratch my head.
That outlandish end-user agreement that gives Delta free reign to collect, change, and/or monitor EVERYTHING our own devices (even outside of AirWatch), thereby turns everything I do on my iPad into "company business."
I'm a little suprised DALPA hasn't :
a) worked to limit Delta's control and monitoring of our "personal" devices
b) put out a blurb warning us about the draconian terms of use
Flight Ops have stated that they will not monitor our devices. For me it was a personal choice, not one that will drive DAL towards a decision. With 11,800 pilots it is a business decision, and any thing that is self selecting will have a 20-30% participation rate if we have to pay for it. That is why the decision to outfit Flight Ops with EFB's of any sort will be a decision that goes to the highest levels of DAL for funding approval. It also goes farther than just buying the darn devices. It also surrounds support, a device that supports modifications to our enterprise, has latitude from the maker and OS provider to make changes and to allow DAL the access to modify programs as needed.
Because of all of this and more, what a few hundred to a a few thousand pilots do with a ipad is totally inconsequential. To go live and see the real saving of the removal of all of those books in each jet, requires a corporate plan with a major expenditure not just on the devices but on the software and support. Buying our own may be offered but again it will be a short term solution to a hurdle not the final policy and plan.