From the AA side, where the grass is greener because of the brown squishy stuff between my toes and the buzzing of green bottle flies, here are some observations:
You have grass? I think we have turf. Not the good stuff the cheap plastic kind from Home Depot
Points to finally getting the iPad for total use. It still doesn't make up for the decade plus of not having ships pubs and making each pilot update as many as 4-5 Jepp books plus the MEL that maintenance was incompetent in revising that the company then gave it to us to revise for free.
Here on the Cal side I get to carry and update an ipad, jepps, flight manual. I'm guessing you deleted the tracking app that was put on there. At least you can put angry birds on. I can't even get usa today app on mine which should be a requirement. Sorry room 1467.
The suction mount basically sucks. It's great for maybe a first generation, east european vacuum tube taxi GPS, but it blocks vision and use of the sunshades (if installed). There are better options. They also "de-suck" without much effort.
You at least have something.
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Once logged in they can view all paperwork while having lunch or on the van and have it printed at nearest gate so when they walk up its already printed.
APA has an easier, simple interface hat I use. The company one is not bad. Not sure about getting the FP printed. Maybe 1 in 50 go-getter agents. Usually it's just another fight for a crappy 1980's dot-matrix printer because a few agents still can't figure out after 30 years why an annoying pilot is in their presence and disturbing their running the airline
It may have been the APA interface with the tabs. He pulled up the paperwork and said"watch this" it started printing. Of course the gate agent was wondering who was printing but at least he didn't have to arm wrestle for a terminal. He may have lost then. UAL side still uses dot matrix/ribbon. Cal side uses laser so now we have twice as many printers that don't work. Making copies!
"Courtesy of of Customers"
Better than "Cost Center" which was the only thing in the address window besides our names until they stopped paper copies.
What color bottle flies do you guys see the most?
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