Is Pinnacle really switching to LIDO?!

[Flyer1015]

1. Um, why?

2. When is this effective?

3. Will LIDO only be carried in airplanes, meaning crews no longer have to carry their Jepp charts?

4. Does the company plan on giving on training + pay for pilots having to learn LIDO?

 

[Lazy8]

1. Um, why?

2. When is this effective?

3. Will LIDO only be carried in airplanes, meaning crews no longer have to carry their Jepp charts?

4. Does the company plan on giving on training + pay for pilots having to learn LIDO?

1. They're saving about $15,000/month by switching from Jepp to Lido and apparently Lido is better for the electronic flight kit. (which we may be getting later down the road)

2. November - Captains will have LIDO / FO's have Jepp

3. Jan 2008 - Both captain and FO will have LIDO (bye bye Jepps for good)

4. Yes, there is a training course and short test on the employee website and we get some cash for doing it.

By the way, I thought you worked for Pinnacle?

 

[Flyer1015]

I do, but I'm green (relatively new).

 

[Lazy8]

I do, but I'm green (relatively new).

Aren't we all!

 

[Flyer1015]

True,



<-------- PT the Clown is the most green. See his hair?

 

[redflyer65]

Just talked to a UPS POI. He rolled his eye when I started talking about Lido. He said good luck.

 

[landlover]

jetblue used LIDO for something like 6 months then swicthed back to jepps.

 

[flyf15]

Ya'll are gonna get good at filling out ASAP reports...

 

[FmrFreightDog]

At the risk of sounding dumb, what is LIDO??

 

[Flyer1015]

At the risk of sounding dumb, what is LIDO??

It's ok, I didn't know what it was either.

LIDO is Lufthansa System's flight planning and dispatch system.

http://www.lhsystems.com/topic3/topic33/index.htm

So basically, airport plates, approach plates, enroute charts, etc will be replaced to LIDO (bye bye Jeppessen).

 

[PCL_128]

1. Um, why?

Because it's Pinnacle. It doesn't have to make sense as long as they can trip over a dollar to save a penny.

LIDO is a mess, and the Pinnacle checkairmen I've talked to are expecting a dramatic rise in pilot deviations as a result of this change. The training is completely deficient, in normal Pinnacle tradition, and the charts are just poorly formated and confusing. The checkairmen are expecting missed crossing restrictions, wrong turns, etc... Should be interesting.

 

[405]

Doesn't FrdEx use LIDO charts?

 

[405]

Because it's Pinnacle. It doesn't have to make sense as long as they can trip over a dollar to save a penny.

LIDO is a mess, and the Pinnacle checkairmen I've talked to are expecting a dramatic rise in pilot deviations as a result of this change. The training is completely deficient, in normal Pinnacle tradition, and the charts are just poorly formated and confusing. The checkairmen are expecting missed crossing restrictions, wrong turns, etc... Should be interesting.

Your pissing and moaning about Pinnacle gets old, PCL, especially since you don't work here anymore.

Let us go and worry about your job at Citrus.

Good luck to you, sir.

 

[J32driver]

Good luck boys and girls. LIDO sucks. There are lots of pretty colors and stuff... but good luck trying to find all those crossing restrictions. Its a friggin Easter Egg hunt every time you do an arrival.

Oh... and you thought you hated doing JEP revisions? I was happy to do my Jepps after working with LIDO. The LIDO process is just plain a pain in the backside.

Good luck and make sure to get a fresh stack of ASAP reports!

 

[Metro752]

1. They're saving about $15,000/month by switching from Jepp to Lido and apparently Lido is better for the electronic flight kit. (which we may be getting later down the road)

2. November - Captains will have LIDO / FO's have Jepp

3. Jan 2008 - Both captain and FO will have LIDO (bye bye Jepps for good)

4. Yes, there is a training course and short test on the employee website and we get some cash for doing it.

By the way, I thought you worked for Pinnacle?

How much cash, what kind of training, how many hours is the training?