Emgineering has had these issues for years. It's called LITS and we often spend longer trying to input data than it took to do the job, or even writing out paper job cards. Progress eh?
Why does the RAF insist on as much as possible being computerised when we just don't have the spec required of our PC's to run the software? When deployed the problems are enormous - for instance the latest maintenance manuals have been moved onto a system called Trilogiview and when we have to move onto laptops (i.e every detachment), the thing is almost (but not quite) unusable it's so slow. Only works OK from a server i.e at the MOB!
Call me a dinosaur but my job was simpler/quicker/more efficient/therefore more productive with hard copy AP's, magiboards and minimal IT. Seems to me aircrew are now finding the same thing - IT is not always the best way. Is this another system for you to input sorties as well as LITS and RASDA?
JG