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Old 05-21-2013 | 03:35 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Well to give the comms people some credit, recent years have seen massive and wholesale penetration of classified and unclassified defense networks by a large and growing Potential thReat Country...apparently most of that was accomplished by exploiting commercial hardware. So I can see why they're running scared.
Believe me, I get it. It's still top-down directed by people who don't understand what's going on - never forget that 90% of the AF is not flying. They are unwilling (or were) to work with the operators to devise a solution.

As much as I'd hate to see yet another empire, they should've gone with an Android platform so they could build another PFPS-style empire for development and not been beholden to the blessing of the half-eaten fruit cult. With the iPad selection, they virtually guaranteed to slow their spiral development timeline by double....
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Old 05-31-2013 | 03:54 PM
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Why say "yes" when it is so easy to say "no..."
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Old 06-09-2013 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by LowSlowT2
As much as I'd hate to see yet another empire, they should've gone with an Android platform so they could build another PFPS-style empire for development and not been beholden to the blessing of the half-eaten fruit cult. With the iPad selection, they virtually guaranteed to slow their spiral development timeline by double....
Or they could have gone with the dedicated EFBs sold by Jeppeson or others. But it wouldn't be the Air Force if they didn't spend twice as much to get some kind of additional capability (real or imagined) that they then can't position themselves to exploit fully.
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Old 06-11-2013 | 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by gr8vu
AF will continue to not pay for Jepps so we will use the NGA app at some point for now.
Are you sure? Every unit (usually Group or Wing) I belonged to had a Jepp ID and Password. I always made printouts of the civilian airport charts since NGA charts either didn't have all of the plates or as much ground chart details.
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