I gotta figure out what I did but last trip when I used my day/night ipad system quick setting toggle Mission+ switched between day and night.

…as did Oaknotes…

Mission+ is usable and will improve. Delta has taken pilot input and put it on the road map. However, Mission+ should have rolled out with every feature of html flight plan and more. Here is a quick list of issues:

• · At best, the data is overly segmented. Often it is badly categorized.
• · A second alternate is not shown in fuel or flight info. You must use Inflight -> Final Alternates or access with All Alternates on dashboard.
• · No highlighting.
• · Poor schedule awareness. No On-Time Reference. Upper left times that always show are planned, not scheduled, or revised ETA. Entering takeoff time will not show early or late.
• · Poor break calculator. Numerous cases of strange amounts such as 23 hour breaks. No 4-man even option without trickery for breaks.
• · No day/night (should not need a change in settings to mitigate)
• · No split screen
• · Flight Log too spread out.
• · Lacks full rotation of crew.

Yeah you're right. Expecting basic a basic function to make the app usable in the environment it was intended for = whining. Forgive me. Now wheres my oar so I can shut up and row?🙄

Were you on the design team by chance?

Oh Christ, how could I forget that! My second biggest complaint! Makes reviewing Notams and how they might affect the flight sloppy and overly time consuming at best, and easy to miss items at worse. Again, a basic function THAT EVERY OTHER FREAKING APP comes with standard, yet somehow missed by the crack squad there in IT.

Some people saying it will get better... do you really believe that? Look how long it took for them to release the last update which brought a bad crosswind calculator and even worse break calculator and a super clunky notam filter.

The team designing the updates is the same one responsible for making this crappy app in the first place.

Requires us to randomly login for some unknown reason, even in flight. I don’t have time to debug/hard reset an app while I’m considering/coordinating a divert.

I dislike M+ but have gotten used to it.

I hate to defend M+ rollout but…you don’t have to use it. This is the interim period where the primary piece of info is the paper flight plan. Thanks to all of our complaining, eh suggestions, the product should, eh will, be improved. If they go live with M+ still having these issues, I’d be upset. It’s still hot garbage, but it’s use is not required.
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How becoming of a Lead LCA to call someone a whiner.

We all really enjoyed it when you attacked the female pilot on Workplace for "looking sloppy" too. Did anything ever come of that? Did you get her disciplined? Did you get the women's uniform standards put back to Navy Standard? Inquiring minds want to know.

Oh man those things were crap. Nothing like having it lock up to blue screen of death and go into it's 10 minute reboot, just as your starting an arrival into LAX (and a few other places lol). I'm actually impressed that the company finally acknowledged it was crap and moved on. Someone dude on FB was so in love with the surface that he blocked myself and many others who disagreed with him about it. Basically said we're IOS babies and droid haters...even though I have an android phone. It is fun seeing guys repsond to him and trying to figure out what the fight it about, because his posts are generally pretty polarizing.




It's pretty crazy how much power the FAA gives to a single individual, and how much company policy can be dictated by whims of the POI. These decisions should not be left to, "some guy doesn't like it," so you can't do it, especially when other airlines are doing it.



We shouldn't be surprised, they stiff-armed John Bells flight plan stuff for a long time.






LOL right. Like "we promise we won't run hot again." In fairness they did give up on the surface and switch it iPad.




Someone has to use it to provide the feedback of everything that need fixed. I'd rather that happen, than have the engineers standing around a room backslapping each other on a "fine" piece of work that gets rolled out a steaming pile o crap and made mandatory.