Outatowner
7th May 2015, 05:10
Someone's made a career out of this "home made EFB" farce and it's been an amazing technological journey but I heard the ten year anniversary of the introduction of the laptop EFB system here is coming up and to celebrate they're going to bin the entire ridiculous thing and revert to the original systems planned by the respective manufacturers.
No more screens freezing up, no more having to get down on knees to reset the laptop jerry-rigged into the flight bag stowage, no more wondering how you'd deal with a LiPo battery fire in that mount, no more hooking laptops over the window handle, no more finding out the company route STILL isn't loaded despite it being a 15 year destination, no more screen failures, no more passing laptops back and forth or running the batteries down inflight, no more manually entering airways and waypoints, no more power cables being run over by the seats, no more badly translated LIDO charts or having to read tea leaves to work out which STAR, etc.
That was all a lot of fun but could it be someone's finally decided the money spent on this idiotic, tightfisted, abortion of a thing is outweighed by just buying the proper gear instead and we'll be able to function properly and cross load all data back and forth like everyone else has been doing for years. Welcome to the 20th century..... Happy daze.
No more screens freezing up, no more having to get down on knees to reset the laptop jerry-rigged into the flight bag stowage, no more wondering how you'd deal with a LiPo battery fire in that mount, no more hooking laptops over the window handle, no more finding out the company route STILL isn't loaded despite it being a 15 year destination, no more screen failures, no more passing laptops back and forth or running the batteries down inflight, no more manually entering airways and waypoints, no more power cables being run over by the seats, no more badly translated LIDO charts or having to read tea leaves to work out which STAR, etc.
That was all a lot of fun but could it be someone's finally decided the money spent on this idiotic, tightfisted, abortion of a thing is outweighed by just buying the proper gear instead and we'll be able to function properly and cross load all data back and forth like everyone else has been doing for years. Welcome to the 20th century..... Happy daze.