Never fails to amaze me that in this day and age we still get Volmet broadcasts without info on runway in use at last report. Zooming across the pond recently to a destination on the coast that has a weak ATIS and finding ourselves unable to make a cohesive plan for arrival. 10 hours of boredom with 20 minutes of frantic button-pressing. Surely, in the 21st century we can come up with data links that can fast download weather etc from sat or maybe units co-located with VORs. $100,000,000 aeroplane? C'mon! Automatic ATIS uploading ought to be simple in "The Information Age".
Dear Mr Boeing.
With regards to your new 787. Could you please give us radios that work at longer range. Also, dust filters in the flightdeck aircon ducts, seals between the lav floor and the flightdeck, sunvisors that don't have gaps round the edge, power points for our laptops, cupholders that aren't directly below a piece of structure (I like LARGE cups of coffee) and more clips to hold Jepp charts on the side panels.