What are the 175 bases and how senior are they?

 

tablet announcment finally would it be smart still to bring a personal one with us if these willnot be ours? also that wording was a little funny. we will be shown how to install the mount? no way im carrying a mount with me to the plane would rather use paper charts

 

The mounts are staying in the aircraft. You won't have to carry them around, just mount your EFB to the mount when you get in to the A/C. That's what they said on the SAPA conference call on Monday

 

What was decided on the reflow policy the company was pushing?

 

Who likes the MSP pairings?

 

Is Seattle a CRJ or E-jet base or both?
Senior/Junior? How long to hold it?

 

both. Told some guys in my newhire class that they might be able to hold it out of training if they get lucky.

 

There great if you like 15 or 20 hour 3 and 4 day trips with lots of legs. I bid 30% and get okay stuff.

 

Both. And its kind of Jr now.. Even for Captains... (On thr CRJ). It seems to be a growing base because of the Alaska vs Delta terf war...

 

It's actually a pretty weird situation. Effectively the company wanted us to own these things, presumably because they didn't want to deal with returns, digital cleaning, and re-issue. That would actually be OK if it was a free gift that I then owned, but they wanted pilots who left the company within the life of the gadget to re-imburse them. Even then there would be wireless updates of Jepps, OS, AV, etc. so it would be a grey area whether the company could legally read your mail if they wanted too.

But the pilots didn't want to have to re-imburse the company, so now it looks like they'll just be company property (fully returnable), which would would mean little to no expectation of privacy. Not saying they would snoop, but it would be within the realm of possibility.

If you're going to do anything online which the company might not like (ie post non-koolaid commentary on APC) probably safer to do it on your own device. I'm still carrying my own laptop, mainly because I have some special software which may not run on a surface, and I have my entire life stored which means I encrypt the HDD. If I tried to customize the EFB the way I want it, I'm afraid I'd break the EFB tool or something.

If you're just accessing browser-based online content and are not going to do/say anything that the company wouldn't like, I'd just carry the EFB.