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So, has anyone hooked a Bluetooth GPS up to their tablet yet? Will Jepps let the GPS show on the 10-9 page? Anyone want to let me borrow their Bad Elf Pro before I drop $150 on one myself?

BTW, I've already been through 2 typecovers. I've only had the thing 2 days. Mixed review from the first flight. We shall see how this works.

R1

I am talking about the ones that want to basically run through an entire emergency scenario during the initial brief.

LAX ER Capt's have an open backdoor....

Tons of open time to boot...Even a 10 day Asia 76hrs before Xmas. I hope B's had that much flying as well.

Baja.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

On your first question, I've done this on other devices (iPad, BadElf, Jepp Pro, not at Delta) with the same program and the answer was yes, you get ownship on a moving-map airfield diagram, muis beuno.

How did you go through two covers already? Did they fail right out of the box?

One note for charging the keyboard/cover...I noticed when the Surface is powered off (keyboard attached) and plugged in, the Surface charges but the keyboard doesn't. The Surface needs to be on (sleep mode OK) and plugged in with the keyboard attached for the keyboard to charge. At least on mine.

I think part of the abort brief ("what I'll abort for") actually is the Captain briefing himself, to recall specifically the items he will NOT abort for. I'd indulge him, and nodd effusively. The next part is about what YOU need to do, and it's not an established standard, so you have to unroll your eyes back down, and re-open the ear-flaps. It's a tedious process, even more so because the maneuver is so infrequently employed, but so worth it if actually needed.

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I've been thinking about the intelligent comments being made about yapping too much while we fly. I agree we should probably speak less, with more purpose. Paradoxically, however, of all the things we yapp about, from the WARTS, to the NATS, to the cross-checking before executing, to the approaching/armed calls, I find it difficult to see what specific items need to be removed.

One area in which I think we've made progress is cross-checking FMS entries, and we probably shouldn't go back. When in training, I've noticed my most notable screw-ups happened when I knew better than to get another "Like", and my hands got fast.

That being said, if I'm changing speeds in the box, it can be done silently.

I think the Approaching Inbound course/gs call is a little excessive. The problem I see is that if you're busy asking for flaps/gear and forget to arm the loc or GS, probably the PM is busy as well doing that and working the radio - he's probably not looking at the FMA at the moment to notice that you haven't armed the loc/gs. So he's going to miss or be late on the Approaching call.

Anyway - I fly the plane the way the company wants. I have a friend over at Cathay and as he says it, "we quack about all sorts of stuff going down final and all it does is detract from actually monitoring the approach or seeing the big picture stuff"

I flew a trip with a guy that briefed the entire electrical fire checklist to me and the flt attendants every leg. Is it good to know ... Yes! In 34 years of flying, has it ever happened to me...no.

Every leg...whew!

The AE is available on the Crew Resources website.

67 new Captain slots isn't bad. I would think the LAX and SLC slots would make some guys pretty happy.