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Old 10-25-2006 | 07:59 AM
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The LIDO presentation sold itself to FedEx when it was domonstrated how it will work well in the electronic flight bag version. The Jepp idea was PDF files that could be brought up on the EFB screen. They didn't orient to the direction of airplane movement and were your basic dull Jepp colors. LIDO will be fully functioning. Good color, it'll orient to aircraft direction and a ton of other good stuff. But it's still LIDO. I have to say that I'm not impressed with what I have to do to figure out how to do a departure or an arrival. Poorly laid out and spread out everywhere.

Now, if I was part of the 727 or DC-10 community I'd be totally ****ed. Those airplanes will never see the EFB so they're stuck with the paper product. And the paper product is a total pain to use. Where do the 727 guys lay all of that crap as they're getting ready to brief?
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