Originally Posted by
morerightrudder
Manual costs are probably small in comparison. Chatauqua has how many, 800 pilots? Let's say it costs $25 to print each manual. FOM and SOP for each pilot. So $50 total each person. 800 times $50 = $40000. Heck, throw in binders and packaging costs and call it $50000.
It is still a wasteful slaughter of innocent trees, though.
Fellas, Shuttle has ship sets for the manuals, so the company will only need to print a POH and GOM for each aircraft and send out revisions to each pilot. The Shuttle revision book is pretty thin right now and I don't know about E145 POH revisions but I doubt it's gonna be that big of a deal.
Also, everybody already has all of the Jepps they need. We are all responsible for ALL of the charts that the company distributes to us, but only need to carry what is listed in C070 (or whatever it is) for that particular cert. The prudent thing for the company would be to just re-issue charts for the airports that are not common to Shuttle and CHQ....and I can't imagine that is very many airports. Once the C070 is updated, just go through your jeeps, figure out which airports you don't have, and send a request to tech pubs or go to the jeppview on the company website and print them off a company computer...like I said, I really doubt that either cert will need to add very many airports.
The cost for the charts and the manuals is gonna be negligible and isn't a factor.
Also, if we spread the word that everyone needs to get their e-learn iPad module completed ASAP, this will all be a lot less painful...not that it will be, regardless.