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Old 07-05-2023 | 04:20 PM
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Look at ORD right now. It’s a goat rope trying to get out of here.
Release the parking brake, baby! Chaos is cash!
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Old 07-05-2023 | 04:49 PM
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Obviously not, but some of the ludicrous $h!t I’ve seen lately as far as filing right through a line of wx will make you shake your head and facepalm. Oh well, diverts and go around spay better.
Amen to that
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Old 07-05-2023 | 05:20 PM
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Obviously not, but some of the ludicrous $h!t I’ve seen lately as far as filing right through a line of wx will make you shake your head and facepalm. Oh well, diverts and go around spay better.
& they “pay” better, too.
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Old 07-05-2023 | 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by hoover
this no wifi is getting to be a safety issue.
Was coming into DEN the other night. Massive storms and reroutes and new arrivals constantly. We couldn't get the big picture of what arrival etc would work better because no wifi. So we were at the mercy of DEN center and radar.
in a fuel situation and the indecision of center etc we had bo idea if their plan would work and thusly couldn't be confident in our diversion plan.
it was getting to the point of just diverting so we knew we could make it to the alternate before we had no options.
With wifi satellite radar we would have had a way better idea of what's going on.
Why not carry a personal iPad with Foreflight and ADS-B rx device with you?
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Old 07-05-2023 | 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
Why not carry a personal iPad with Foreflight and ADS-B rx device with you?
Dude just shut tf up and go back to running your CFI sweatshop or whatever tf you actually do.
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Old 07-05-2023 | 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
Why not carry a personal iPad with Foreflight and ADS-B rx device with you?
😂😂😂 Why should we?! Why should we spend our own personal money to do something like that?

Honestly, you’re just embarrassing yourself. I’m not sure why you continue to spend your time on an AIRLINE PILOT forum when you’re not actually an airline pilot (and a majorly anti-union one at that).
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Old 07-05-2023 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER
Amen. Especially since now dispatch simply files you right through wx and not around, a big picture on your iPad is vital.
That’s why I contact dispatch and tell them the way we want to go. If I’m Johnny on the spot . I look at the release on the inbound leg and send an ACARS where we want to go.
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Old 07-06-2023 | 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by mulcher
That’s why I contact dispatch and tell them the way we want to go. If I’m Johnny on the spot . I look at the release on the inbound leg and send an ACARS where we want to go.
I’m usually too busy eating my muffin….that I grabbed at the hotel…….of course.
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Old 07-06-2023 | 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
Why not carry a personal iPad with Foreflight and ADS-B rx device with you?
The non smartass answer is that you can't being your own equipment into a 121 cockpit. Everything in the jet has to be FAA approved in the ops specs and company manuals. (And before you reply, don't even tell me about headsets and show more ignorance. You know what I mean.)

If you were a real airline pilot, you'd know that. Go away and stop embarrassing yourself with all of your inane "news" stories and commentary about things you don't understand here.
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Old 07-06-2023 | 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Tropical
The non smartass answer is that you can't being your own equipment into a 121 cockpit. Everything in the jet has to be FAA approved in the ops specs and company manuals. (And before you reply, don't even tell me about headsets and show more ignorance. You know what I mean.)

If you were a real airline pilot, you'd know that. Go away and stop embarrassing yourself with all of your inane "news" stories and commentary about things you don't understand here.
Oh trust me I'm quite aware. But I am also quite aware that lots of guys do it anyway, and especially with regards to safety if you can't get big picture NEXRAD via wifi, then it's better to have it sometimes on your own ipad than not have it at all. If you can surf tiktak and snatchchat in the cockpit with wifi, then you can absolutely justify having an ipad with ads-b rx without wifi.

Post #16 says it all, it's a safety issue not having it sometimes:
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