Originally Posted by
JoeBlo
Is this a joke?
Have you ever heard of operational control? Dispatches have contact with flights all around the world the whole flight....
Any weather changes or pertinent info that changes thru out the flight will be relayed via, acars, sat phone, HF radio, VHF radio...
Yes, all true. I was flying 121 before ipads (or iphones) existed.
But I'm pretty sure that I save gas with WSI, which allows you to quickly visualize rapidly changing conditions and optimize your path. Especially the vertical component. Sometimes it's *really* nice to know exactly what's behind that hole you're contemplating taking a chance on.