My UAL email has been accessible so sporadically that there is no way I can use it for anything. The last two times I looked at it in the past year, was trying to get a password reset for WSI (unsuccessfully). When I look at my inbox, it is full of company SPAM. It gets more spam than my Yahoo account.

I use it for Content Locker, JeppPro, and maybe watching a wifi movie if I am DHing. Thats it for me. I keep tape over the camera and microphone.

 

I don't know sheet from shinola, but I'm glad the PBS lines were flawed. My line sucked arse....c'mon second chance baby!! Whew.

Ps. I use all the functions on my Company iPad. Email, WSI, Jep, that cool crew app to get the flight plan. Even surfing this forum!! Works Good lasts a long time.

 

I get it, the United Daily messages are kind of annoying, but really? You're getting that much unwanted company mail on your United account?

 

Saw more than one 727 pilot that could not grasp glass cockpits. The iPads are very similar in the transition from paper to digital. Some pilots don't have the ability to adapt. They will moan and groan until they hit the exit. The flashing 12:00 on his VCR (Betamax) must drive him crazy.....;-)

 

The iPad has many features currently missing from glass cockpits.

1. You can send today's flightplan to Adobe and Adobe will immediately open yesterday's flight plan, right where you last viewed it.

2. Popups warning that ownship display is not authorized whenever the screen is turned on or that particular app is opened.

3. Certain application options are forced so you cannot misconfigure them, such as ownship display.

4. EULA terms dialogs appearing at random intervals. Also, the EULA changes to "check connection settings" when appropriate to facilitate agreement in flight, with or without data/wifi.

6. Automatically switching from the SID to the airport page a few seconds after liftoff.

7. Unscheduled updates.

8. Greedy for wifi, trusted or not, suitable or not.

9. Gives you time to brush your teeth, get dressed, and take a short nap whenever it loads a flight plan.

That's a lot of features. It might even be worth the paper revisions and flight cases we lost.

 

10. having to enter a security code every other time you try to access it

I'm an early adopter of this and absolutely hated doing jepp updates, but give it a rest already. Stop with the signin prompt.

 

Many have had an urge to stand athwart the tide of glass and Airbii yelling "Stop!"

 

Likewise, I've watched more than one "children of the magenta line" who couldn't fly a decent visual approach (without the AP and FMC doing 90 percent of the work even though we were high and fast on the profile). Yet, I'll bet those Einsteins at Asiana were absolute Houdini's in the simulator.

 

And likewise I've watched some of the older generation who couldn't fly themselves out of a wet paper bag. Thank god some of the "younger generation" were there to give them subtle prompts to get them back on the path and get their gear and flaps down at the appropriate time.

 

Aren't you part of the older generation now?

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