Hello all - I know over the last few months we`ve been advised not to use ACARS to get a PDC as a cost cutting move! why use the expensive box of tricks when you can use the airwaves which are free!
Although I know that some people have been taking it to the extreme and not using ACARS to get met enroute - instead waiting till they get in range of a volmet station.
In fact I believe these same people want to get rid of the ACARS and the spare paper rolls in order to gain a weight reduction and hence achieve a more economic fuel burn!!
(not that many of the 737`s have ACARS now - thats just an expensive toy for the LHR boys!)
