Originally Posted by
Otters
a huge shout out to Captain Don Dobias, UAL ALPA Training Committee Chairman. Don worked relentlessly behind the scenes to force the company into reviewing its decision. The thankless work often going unnoticed behind the scenes.
I would second that.
But, it should not have been that hard. The DEN TK people are super-hard-headed. Just hard to communicate with.
I had to threaten to fly around the Thompson Airways B757 MEL along with the Delta MEL because they wouldn't put it on the IPAD. Had to file numerous stupid PDR's and lots of silly emails to get them to see the light that an electronic log book has nothing to do with actually being able to read and reference the aircraft MEL.
In more than one simulator session I just handed the IPad to the check airman and said "here you go, you figure it out." They were trying to force us to use the Ipad to run complex emergency checklists. You can't even save book marks from update to update. You can't high-light, mark pages, etc. Once a new update comes out to the checklist or normal and abnormals, what you thought you knew, and where you thought it was - was gone.
The Ipad is not the place for this kind of stuff, especially tired, and blurry-eyed in the middle of the night, or in the weather. Or, when you drop your Ipad and it is frozen up and locked you out after you put in the wrong six digit code for the 5th time.
The beauty of the QRH is it's simple and it always works.