That could be a fair comment when working for BA netjets or any major.
The rest of us have to put up with no hotel rooms booked, no hire car, no flight plans, bizarre flight planning, impossible scheduals and then when you phone they have legged it as soon as they get an arrival message. And our crews lives constantly screwed about because of thier piss poor planning and attention to detail.
Gimps in ops can run an airline into the ground far faster than any other deptment.
And BTW I have worked as ops I know exactly what it takes and what a bastard of a job it is. I am not expecting anything other than what I would provide myself.
But as you say if by not being PRnav approved gets them out of doing the point merge system it may very well be a tatical omission that they can do it.
Certainly most aircraft seem to have an upgrade to allow you to do it. How much that upgrade is (I should imagine alot) I don't know. Although thankfully the trusty trimble approach plus doesn't :-)
Peter from my searches tonight it appears that most of the kit can do it already with a software upgrade. I think you can also do it with twin G530's but I don't have a reference for that. It was an option for the 8.33 capability which also got you PRNav as well.
Fair enough denti I got a jump seat on 777 years ago am pretty certain they pulled them out and then cross referenced them against the paper books. But it was a few years and before I had any clue what was going on in a CAT cockpit.
Last edited by mad_jock; 12th February 2012 at 21:55.