Originally Posted by
syd111
As far as the shipsets doing nicely excatly what are you referring to. It is fine we have them but show me the savings from the 3 years of developing this highly complex system that saves no money. <it seems like most of the time the only people that win with this stuff, shipsets, pbs ect are the pilots that dont fly the line and just sit on their butss on sa special assignment. I think the pbs guy even got a new bid great for a gut that never flies the line.
Dont get me wrong I like not having the flight bag but take a good hard look at how this program came about.
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What actual difference does it make HOW it came about? Because just llke everything Else, Unless they issue the iPad to EACH pilot and make THEM Personally responsible for them? As usual, it will fall on Maintenence
to replace them after they're abused or stolen from one airplane to another after one doesn't work somewhere and a Captain will tell some Controller they can't Possibly open a flight bag and READ the flight manual anymore. Just like we've had refusals for Autobrakes, Autothrottles an Adiru being inop (when there are Three on board. Or an Apu being inop Flying over Mountains west of Denver, as if having the APU is going to help the airplane in GETTING over the Mountains. So No, I don't care essentially about the ipad OR the EFB just the added BS it will bring after it's installed. Heck I'm still wondering How some crew's flew BEFORE we had autoland to hear all the "Caterwauling" I hear when it's inop. JEEZ!
Just seems like another "Bell and Whistle" to me..