Comments on: American Airlines pilots to use iPads from Friday ‘in all phases of flight’ http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Fri, 24 May 2013 20:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Yoder http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431954 Mark Yoder Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:26:25 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431954 Techfreak – I appreciate the welcome! Intelligent banter is always a good thing!

]]> By: Mark Yoder http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431950 Mark Yoder Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:11:49 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431950 Also in reply to your second question. You don’t have to worry about a battery issue as they can set it up to run off a power source. Secondly you have redundancies to back it up which can include radio support from others flying the same aircraft or on the ground. Also these “flight bags” are used fairly infrequently and you have to remember you are flying in a huge computer…I think they know how to handle the technology.

]]> By: TechFreak http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431931 TechFreak Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:05:39 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431931 I agree with you in that they probably decided this before filing. And it probably DOES make sense in the long run and keeps the pilots on par with other airlines adopting the iPad for use (United for example).

I just think its bad timing to announce this right after a bankruptcy filing. It looks bad to the public eye.

Welcome to the site by the way! Nice to have intelligent people on here to talk with.

]]> By: Mark Yoder http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431927 Mark Yoder Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:01:56 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431927 OK…I really wasn’t commenting to get in a big debate! I would argue that they probably started the testing of this procedure before they filed for bankruptcy (the group managing this program probably wasn’t part of the group that made the decision to file) and they are selling it as a green and cost reducing initiative. In the scheme of things it isn’t a big purchase and it should ultimately save the company. I am one who looks at the big picture and would have supported this move in this same situation. Obviously we just need to agree to disagree.

]]> By: TechFreak http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431860 TechFreak Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:09:50 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431860 Mark, regardless of the true savings, this is incredibly bad press on their part and makes them look like idiots.

What happens with their iPad crashes or battery runs out?

]]> By: jesterking http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431625 jesterking Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:47:15 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431625 Until the pilots get distracted by playing some games and the planes start to fall from the sky! lol

]]> By: Mark Yoder http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431570 Mark Yoder Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:38:40 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431570 In the scheme of things it is not flamboyant. $250k might save 5 jobs for 1 year but iPads will last for several years and will pay for themselves in costs reductions. $250K is a lot of money but considering a plane flight from JFK to LAX costs around $30K that amount of money is spent in one day by an airline so in that context it is not flamboyant and over time actually makes pretty good sense!

]]> By: jesterking http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431482 jesterking Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:29 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431482 I agree with him. It’s a flamboyant purchase that is unnecessary. Considering that they will likely cut staff with this bankruptcy, 250k could save a lot of jobs. the ipads are unnecessary. At least, at this point in the airlines life.

]]> By: jesterking http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431480 jesterking Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:46:04 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431480 Sorry, Alec Baldwin…

]]> By: jesterking http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431479 jesterking Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:45:26 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431479 Does anyone else find it ironic that Alic Baldwin gets thrown off a AA flight for not turning off his phone while playing a game, and now the pilots will be using Ipads in the cockpit while flying? I guess angry birds really is that popular. This should go over well.

/myth about turning off electronics on planes.

]]> By: Mark Yoder http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431468 Mark Yoder Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:43:18 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431468 So the savings of reduced fuel costs (which will continue over time), reduction in the amount of paper being purchased (again which continues over time) outweights (in your opinion) the spending of $250,000 (609 airplanes x $399). They filed for bankruptcy protection of $4 Billion (the cost of the ipads is 0.0000625 of that amount). I think your response is not well thought out but I won’t go as far as to say “stupid”.

]]> By: TechFreak http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-from-friday-in-all-phases-of-flight/#comment-431008 TechFreak Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:20:09 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com/?p=326644#comment-431008 Great, so American Airlines will be filing for bankruptcy, but has enough money to buy iPads for their pilots? Extremely stupid.

]]>