Do you even have to ask?

We're getting the ones with the slow processor and inadequate memory.

Except Steve Dickson. He gets an iPad.
And a bonus for saving Delta money on tablets.

You want the iPad Air 2 with the otterbox defender Proclip mount. You just put the hardcover on it after you're done, and throw it in your bag.

When have we ever used the USB on our current tablets?????

To "test" the naughty leprechaun, or some such mythical creature. :eek:

To see that they won't run the sub par training software during initial training.

We haven't because nothing runs on the RT (p)OS.

What we should have gotten in the beginning...ipads.

Sorry, I should have added that sarcastic eye roll emoji.....

Denny

I use it all the time, to charge my phone! :D

Same here. I use it almost every day.

True, but its Delta tradition to pee away gobs of money before realizing what they should have done to begin with.

To charge my iPhone, of course.

iPads are not compatible with the 1982 era Okidata printers at the gates.:rolleyes:
Sheesh, for a smart guy, you sounded pretty dumb there!

You can expect to receive Bulletins and Memos; lots of Bulletins and Memos. If you can't sign back in while turning to intercept final while simultaneously holding down the power and volume down button to reset the Surface then YOUR PROBLEM is just operator error.

The Surface is a lot like the MD88 that way. Nothing in the build* that can't be fixed via a bulletin.


REVISION "*" : Wrote "design" but there is no indication the MD88 was designed. It seems to have been assembled from whatever parts were left over from previous efforts with DC-9's and DC-10's.

I'm curious to why people are comparing the newest ipads to the oldest or least capable Surfaces? If Delta goes with the oldest, cheapest, and least capable Surfaces, why would you think they wouldn't get the oldest, cheapest, and least capable ipads they could get?

How does this sound... ipad 2 isn't that powerful, the Surface 4 pro is so much better.

Timmy Cook didn't save Delta 15000 of his antiquated iPad2s.
Billy Gates did save 15000 of his antiquated Surface 3s for us.

For anyone who cares, the iPad air 2 won the trials at Endeavor vs the Surface 3, which failed due to freezing issues.

Now that's comedy.

This sounds like a new LOE sim profile. I bet the cockpit isn't that sterile during this. Procedures in QRH or content locker?

Endeavour is hiring

Not long ago I had an emergency where the captain gave me the aircraft and radios while he handled all the other duties. Long and short of it is that when it came time for the brief I asked him to go over the approach while I kept flying. His Surface was frozen like frosty and so he took over the flying at that point while I briefed it. We ended up leaving it like that and he did the approach and landing.

My ASAP included that detail: Surface froze up necessitating the transfer of controls. Some how that little nugget didn't make it into the hangar flying narrative that went out to the masses and was nicely glossed over with no reason given for the why the transfer of control was made.

Given the choice, I would have handed over my working Surface to the Captain, not the aircraft. I'd much rather operate an emergency airplane than log one more swipe, pinch or tap on my Surface 2.

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Do not know what everyone os complaining about. Microsoft acts like having a Frozen Surface is a good thing. They market it even. My daughters are delighted.

Now that's funny. I see what you did there.

-2263

This is progress? My old bag of Jepps never froze up, and unlike a tablet, was virtually theft-proof! :D

Next poll...who prefers a bag full of Jepps and revisions to a Surface? I think you'd have to be nuts, but that's just me...

On the other hand, if we still carried around 30lbs worth of Jepps we could get Delta Health Rewards dollars. Win-win!

Yeah but my shoulder doesn't hurt nearly as much from schlepping 50 lbs of paper around.

True, however the surface has yet to replace the bag of jepps. Airlines that went with the IPad were paperless in 6 months. We are into this 3 years with no sign of getting rid of the bag of Jepps.

Not all. One company went with the surface and was paperless about 6 months later.

And unless something has changed VERY recently, UAL still carries ship sets. So they don't have to lug them around, but neither do DAL pilots ;)

Which company? I Jumpseat often and have never seen another surface!

ExpressJet, the other company HQ'd in ATL. But I'm not sure if the airline that has the namesake of the holdings Corp is still carrying paper ship sets.

These things are so great, Delta sent me two!:eek:

I think mine has been laying in the driveway for about a week, big box right?