Hey, with that line of thinking, why don't you buy protection for the galley carts while you're at it.

That won't do a thing to stop the company from charging a first year FO $600 if they decide to.

I didn't have to sign to take responsibility for the galley cart, but I did have to sign for the Ipad. Putting a case on the ipad will likely not change the companies position that I owe $600 if I break it, but it will make that circumstance much less likely, and that is worth the $20 to me.

I think I am sensing sarcasm in that statement... I surely don't hope you feel that the iPad is your "investment". It is most definitely TSH's investment. Hopefully we get a proper LOA to reflect this.

I don't want, nor do I feel it is my responsibility to buy proper protection for something I'm required to have. If something isn't worked out with the company for replacements in the event of a broken ipad; I will have to rethink a case. A new $600 ipad and FO salary don't go together, haha.

I don't expect you to get it and never will. The company could change their policy and require you to take a galley cart with you and you would decide to buy protection for it instead of questioning how dumb it is for you to pay to protect company property.

I bet you would have no problem taking a $20,000 FMS and insuring it yourself if the company found a way to make it portable.

Take it easy junior. I do get it. From a point of principal, I think there should be an LOA, company provided covers etc. From a real world we all live in stand point, shelling out $20 for a cheap case to prevent a $600 liability sounds a lot better than going without. Sure it isn't the moral high ground but not really different than what you have been doing for years. Did you carry your jepps in a good chart bag that you paid for? Did you demand that the company pay for your chart case? Why not, you were carrying around their Jepp charts. I bet your chart case cost way more than a $20 ipad cover.

:rolleyes:

I was told if the Ipad was damaged during normal use it was covered. example: falls off mount in the plane.

In the real world, companies don't make you pay to protect expensive company property. It only happens when regional pilots like you have no backbone.

The company has been supplying nice Jepp binders where you can tear and spill on those pages and not have to worry about a thing. If you have to replace them, you have the option of this thing called the internet and a crew room printer. Of course free replacement and $700 is the same thing for a first year FO.

But not a car accident.

If that's the only protection they say they will give you, just ask yourself, what would happen if they denied my claim that it broke during normal 'use'. You have no LOA protecting you from anything.