Originally Posted by
FedElta
Wow, talk about different results.......early on we had some issues with Lido using Ballnotes for spd/alt restrictions rather than putting them on the course line, but it was an education process for us.
When we looked at EFB products, we found that the Jepp graphics and data base were lacking, and the lido was better.
Sounds like we had extremely different experiences with the product.....I'm hopeful that D will consider shipsets, and select the best product for us all.
regards.....
Some of the guys loved them, I just wasn't smart enough to figure them out I guess. I also hope we go to shipsets and would give LIDO another shot if we used it in an EFB format, I just don't want to go down the paper LIDO road again. Basically, Jepps were developed as a paper system so it doesn't work extremely well as an EFB system unless you have a screen that displays the actual paper chart. LIDO was developed as an EFB system, so transforming that into a paper version has some issues. The ballnotes were the biggest issue. Some of the ballnotes were on the same page as the chart you were looking at, and some of them were on a completely different page. Sometimes the note corresponding to the ball did exist anywhere. There was no "briefing strip" concept and the information was not in the same place on different charts so most of the briefing time was spent cussing while trying to find what you were looking for. The only one-up paper LIDO's had on Jepp was that page that had an overview of all the arrivals on one page with corresponding frequencies. I loved that chart and that was about it.