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Originally Posted by ConfigOK
Are the iPads provided or should I plan on brining my own and do you use them in the classroom only or are they for use in the aircraft as well? Also still looking for the most recent base award
The iPads are issued during ground school, and you'll use them in the classroom and in the airplane, since they have all of our manuals as well as our in-house weight and balance program on them.
Aside from mandating that we keep a certain amount of free memory space on the device, and having to comply with an acceptable use policy, the company generally doesn't care if we install other apps on the iPads (although management apparently can see what apps we have installed), so most people have stuff like Pandora, Netflix, and some games installed on their iPads to kill time on long sits or overnights.
We're supposed to get Jepps on the iPads sometime soon (although we'll have to carry paper charts as well during an evaluation phase), but the pilot group has been told "about a month" for the approval timeline since at least January.
Since Horizon has a relatively small route structure, I'm able to comfortably fit all of the approach plates into a single two-inch binder, with a second (maybe 1/2 full) two-inch binder for less used stuff like enroute charts and the Alaska approach plates.