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Old 02-14-2019, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by trip View Post
You got the link for this severe sigmet that was issued before before this flight dispatched? Just curious as you seem to have some good information your withholding?
It’s called ForeFlight, great app! Not to mention all the news stations discussing one of the biggest snow storms of the decade in the Sierra’s. 4 to 6 feet at Mammoth for the skiers in the crowd.

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Old 02-14-2019, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun View Post
It’s called ForeFlight, great app!
Yeah we use WSI, it’s good. I flew the other direction that day but didn’t see any SEV Sigmet, just MOD in that area. The severe sigmet I did see was issued after the report by the E75, I assume the incident A/C.

DL doesn’t allow any Gogo use by DCI however another partner does allow the use of WiFi for our turbulence app.
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Old 02-14-2019, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun View Post
It’s called ForeFlight, great app! Not to mention all the news stations discussing one of the biggest snow storms of the decade in the Sierra’s. 4 to 6 feet at Mammoth for the skiers in the crowd.
Sierra cement. Champagne powder, Steamboat is getting dumped too. Snow snob?
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Old 02-14-2019, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by NeverFlexTO View Post
All the 3 class DCI RJs have WiFi, and they all have the SSID we have on our jets...try and pull up FWV next time you’re on one, works just fine. Infrastructure is there, switch just needs to be flipped...
Not all of Endeavor's RJs are 3 class is my point, so no wifi for a fair number of their flights to use for it.

Originally Posted by zrls124 View Post
Maybe a good wakeup call for Delta to collaborate more with their regional partners when it comes to things like this. Compass uses iPad's and has wifi. It's hard to think of a reason why they shouldn't have access to the FWV. They are flying the same Delta passengers.
I expect part of it is a desire to ensure they don't take advantage of it for their non-Delta passengers when flying for other airlines, but another part might just be a lack of bandwidth to support all the DCI aircraft in addition to the ML flights.
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Old 02-14-2019, 04:46 PM
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Endeavor has been told we are getting it with the next version of our iPads, coming in about 12 months. Also digital releases, flight family, etc.
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Old 02-18-2019, 01:59 PM
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If we don't share FWV we should at least require them to watch this video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6QJzmLYtw&ut=




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Old 02-18-2019, 05:12 PM
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I expect part of it is a desire to ensure they don't take advantage of it for their non-Delta passengers when flying for other airlines...
Wouldn’t be applicable in this case. The DCI birds Compass flies are OWNED BY Delta.
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Old 02-18-2019, 05:21 PM
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We were recently approved to use WSI at OO, but right now the backdoor on the WiFi only works on our UAL birds. Allegedly, it will be opened up to function on the DL ones as well "soon"
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Old 02-19-2019, 05:39 AM
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Wish we had that function at NK... we do have foreflight...how does the app work? Has it proven to be accurate and trustworthy?
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Old 02-19-2019, 06:18 AM
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Wish we had that function at NK... we do have foreflight...how does the app work? Has it proven to be accurate and trustworthy?
The app works well. I think it’s pretty conservative but the turbulence models are all very helpful. I suspect it’ll be helpful in the summertime when thunderstorm season is in full swing.

Definitely better than nothing. In the past we just received auto-print outs from ACARS which were typically wrong, out of date and printed 2 hours past the fixes involved.
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