Well you're fairly new here so I'd expect you to have not much familiarity with our release format.

You're missing the point, as is James. Let's look at. John Bell delivered a robust easy to use program for pilots, developed by a pilot. We initially used it on Adobe. An update to Adobe rendered the interactivity useless. John quickly adapted and gave us means to trick Adobe. Yet another update to Adobe killed that (if you happened to accidentally load it on your iPad, OR you had to get a new one that came with it preloaded). John again quickly adapted and gave us the Microsoft Edge interface. John has consistently been nimble and adaptive and produced tools for us that are characteristically easy to use, very intuitive highly functional and efficient on the flight deck. I didn't need an LMS academic to use his stuff or a long trial period.

Side bar on paperless. James can confirm I think we've been looking at paperless for about a decade and a half, maybe more. There are and were other solutions to this out there but our air line decided to go with NAVBLUE.

M- was foisted on us and the usual kool aid drinkers here pontificated to its virtues. Almost sounded like a FOPs cheerleading news letter here. Imagine if Apple dumped an app on you as clunky as M-. You'd burn their house down. Literally and figuratively. M- is not well thought out. It is cumbersome, clunky and is very inefficient. It take 4 taps to get to the ship notes. I can find it in <5 seconds on HTML. their are more examples, I won't go into it as I'm not here to convince anyone. I maintain its absolute implementation will be continually slipped to the right.

Personally I think we could have done better for delta pilots than M-. John could have been instrumental. However he was sidelined as this deal with NAVBLUE was most likely in the works and already baked in to our airbus orders. Too bad for us, now we are going to deal with an app, that has potential, but in my opinion that potential will be squandered on the alter of "not going to admit we messed up" management shield.

Again, I don't like using it. I'll continue to use John's products until I'm no longer allowed. My guess is I'll be retired by that time (hopefully). There won't be much more improvement to M-. It's already baked in as we are not only air line using it. There are gates with how far canned software can be "customized" and we are not going to have the luxury for tailoring it for our (the pilots) use. BTW this is nothing new for this air line. We're still suing a DOS based program in the 21st century. Can't wait to see how they replace iCrew. Glad I'll be gone by then. But you fellas enjoy finger banging your iPads to find the simplest of info that many can find in a quick 2-3 seconds on the HTML.