Sounds like "panties in a bunch"....;)

Yeah guess I should sit back and just be glad to work here like your generation of CAL pilots has always done so eloquently...:cool:

You should watch the video. Just my opinion. Once again, it shows UCH succeeding and dare I say dominating in their own minds while the reality is that they're simply repeating the arrogant failures of the past. The device, at this point, is almost functionless. It is not doing anything to increase SA, safety or efficiency. They bought the cheapest version possible, and integrated it in the least effective and lowest cost way which has proven to be an abject failure of process in its entirety. Could it be functional at some point? Sure, but it isn't now. Not even close.

To paraphrase from another forum post, it takes a lot to make the iPad as completely useless as they've made it. Kudos to UCH.

FWIW, at UAl we don't carry manuals anymore, so this is actually a huge inconvenience. I have to make sure it is charged and up to date, yet UCH doesn't provide me a wireless connection at even one of our domiciles, and they most certainly don't pay me to charge it at home. They've removed most of the "useful" functions that I might use to make my life easier and take ownership of the device by eliminating the ability to upgrade the device through the app store. They have also made it quite clear that it is to be used only for UCH functions, so like the flight bag I used to carry, it will stay at work. Further, its functionality is exceptionally poor, and the implementation is worse. When required to carry one, it will go right back into my "secure" V file between trips. If stolen by the cleaning crew that vacuums the floors, I'll be happy to file a police report and get another from the office. I just hope that there is a charge plug withing reach of my V file so that it will be ready to deploy when I get to work.

I currently work for a company that has so completely devalued what I do for them, that I simply do the absolute minimum required. Just the way it is. Unfortunate, but they made that bed. I'm not alone. Not by a long shot.

To All:

UAL is now rolling out the iPads to all line pilots. They say, "PLAN ON 10-15 MINUTES TO COMPLETE THE ACTIVATION;"

I have this to say:
I won't pick one up on my time. Either pay me to come in and pick it up before a flight, or the flight will leave late based on time to do it.

IT and non-contract people decree something not in accordance witht the contract. Not for me.

+1

I don't know how UAL ALPA let this one slip by - Maybe because it's not required and people are doing it for free. Not Me!

+2. Me either.

Bingo x 2

Summer of 2012, you can just feel the love.

Spy on you, "no criminal intent"
 

Robbins v. Lower Merion School District is a federal class action lawsuit, brought in February 2010 on behalf of students of two high schools in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs.[2] In October 2010, the school district agreed to pay $610,000 to settle the Robbins and parallel Hasan lawsuits against it.[1]
The suit alleged that, in what was dubbed the "WebcamGate" scandal, the schools secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes.[3][4] School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home.[5][6] After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly snapped more than 66,000 images.[7][8] The suit charged that in doing so the district infringed on its students' privacy rights.[5][9][10] A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the school district to stop its secret webcam monitoring, and ordered the district to pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees.[11][12][13]

The lawsuit was filed after 15-year-old high school sophomore Blake Robbins was disciplined at school, for his behavior in his home.[5][13] The school's "evidence" that triggered his discipline was a photograph that the school had secretly taken of him in his bedroom, via the webcam in his school-issued laptop. Without telling its students, the schools remotely accessed their school-issued laptops to secretly snap pictures of students in their own homes, their chat logs, and records of the websites they visited. The school then transmitted the snapshots to servers at the school, where school authorities reviewed them and shared the snapshots with others.[14] In one widely published photo, the school had photographed Robbins in his bed.[15] The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), U.S. Attorney's Office, and Montgomery County District Attorney all initiated criminal investigations of the matter, which they combined and then closed because they did not find evidence "that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone involved had criminal intent". In addition, a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee held hearings on the issues raised by the schools' secret surveillance, and Senator Arlen Specter introduced draft legislation in the Senate to protect against it in the future. Parents, media, and academicians criticized the schools, and the matter was cited as a cautionary example of how modern technology can be used to infringe on personal privacy.[16]

The bigg question is can you get Porn on it?????????????