That is very weird. They must have changed the article because I swear it specifically said Reagan Airport. I would have had no other reason to mention it otherwise. I know it quite well, having flown in there multiple times for work. And you're being much to picky as to its location not being in a city. It is quite different from Dulles, which was my main point. It's the DC metroplex.
At 05:10 PM 30/04/2015, Scott Howard wrote: >The cost justification around using the iPads in the cockpit was largely based >around the savings from the cost of the paper - both in terms of keeping it up >to date, but also the physical weight multiplied out over the >6000 flights >that AA flies each day. Having paper as a backup would negate all of those >benefits. > >The article doesn't mention Reagan airport at all, so I'm not sure what your >comments about it are regarding...  (And for what it's worth, it's not really >in the middle of any city - in fact it's literally metres from the edge of one >city/state (Arlington, VA) and the start of the next (Washington, D.C.)) > > Scott > > > >On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Jan Whitaker ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >A case for replicated sources that are reliable. Maybe leave the paper ON the >plane, just in case. >If anyone has flown into DC, this is the airport smack in the middle of the >city, with views of the major landmarks as you come up the Potomac River (not >Dulles, which is out in the fields far from the city) >   ><http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/ipad-app-failure-delays-74-flights-in-the-us-forces-pilots-back-to-paper-charts-20150429-1mwiq0.html>http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/ipad-app-failure-delays-74-flights-in-the-us-forces-pilots-back-to-paper-charts-20150429-1mwiq0.html > > >I write books. ><http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8>http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 >Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >Twitter: ><<https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker >Blog: <http://www.janwhitaker.com>www.janwhitaker.com >Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you >fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. >~Margaret Atwood, writer >_ __________________ _ >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
