Originally Posted by
aewanabe
Just curious how you are doing W/B via ACARS; I recently rode up-front on a RW E170 and it was still all whiz-wheel and paper. At JB I do the W/B on the laptop and then the CA sends the CG, weights, etc. to dispatch over the ACARS. Is it something similar to that?
It's an intgerated EPIC module. It transmits data via ACARS to the Aerodata servers and gets a response in 60-90 seconds. When fully implemented it will be the source for all T/O data, and W&B information.
Same system that Frontier and AirTran uses.