Yup, gotta have it for training, they didn't issue my class paper manuals of any kind. I had a Mini, sold it and got an Air just before starting class. I'm actually kinda surprised that the contract allows this to be mandated at employee expense.

I saw a post from somebody on facebook that Jeppesen announced at Oshkosh that they're discontinuing paper chart services at the end of the year or something like that, so Mesa would've had to switch everyone over anyway. Will be interesting to see how they force the holdouts to buy iPads.