Originally Posted by
Superpilot
Fuel checks every hour? We have every 30 mins, plus TOC and TOD are mandatory in and amongst dealing with STAR routing changes and getting the ATIS late because the reception would not allow it previously. Then there's RVSM prior and every 1 hour (Well done EASA on the universal ruling....not). All of which has to be typed away on the pad at some stage. Previously done by scribbling into a little space on paper, but now you have to launch the correct app, flick through a couple of options, then navigate to the correct tab, then scroll down to the right box, highlight it, and type. We do own loadsheets, and SOP mandates redoing all loadsheet and perf for the smallest of change.
Damn, you must have a very insecure director of flight operations. Why do you need all those unnecessary checks? And to be fair, having flown in Europe, not the UK, the last 20 years we never had to write down a RVSM check, that is not an EASA requirement, it is one from your own flight operations, nobody else. And obviously many airports nowadays do have DCL and D-ATIS, which means even less work.
We do the W&B ourselves as well, but there is no need to redo the loading form within a very wide margin and performance stays the same for nearly all negative changes and positive changes within a certain margin. Being able to do 30 minute turnarounds requires some common sense for all concerned.
Again, the problem does not seem to be the EFB itself, but your SOPs and possibly bad software suite.