How many people use a smartphone for "everything"?
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Yes, the county-dependent fax notification stuff is a nightmare. I think it applies to Police / Special Branch notifications (applicable only to flights between GB and the CTA (Ireland N or S, IOM, Channel Islands). Half the published fax numbers don't work, and if you send the fax to a neighbouring force's fax #, you get a phone call from a stroppy jobsworth Plod who is not at all interested in knowing why the right fax # did not work (e.g. no paper in the machine).
It is about time they all joined up and set up a single point for filing the GAR.
EuroFPL is an excellent product already (especially with the ability to delay a flight plan by sending an SMS message) and this will be really ace.
It is about time they all joined up and set up a single point for filing the GAR.
EuroFPL is an excellent product already (especially with the ability to delay a flight plan by sending an SMS message) and this will be really ace.
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if you send the fax to a neighbouring force's fax #, you get a phone call from a stroppy jobsworth Plod who is not at all interested in knowing why the right fax # did not work (e.g. no paper in the machine).
A few years ago, I did just that by accident (sent it to the wrong police force). It was trip that I'd planed for some time, so the GAR was submitted way in advance (2 weeks). I sent it to South Wales police force instead of North Wales PF.
I didn't get a stropy jobsworth Plod calling me. Instead I got met by two very stropy North Wales Police Force plod's wondering why I never sent a GAR to them.
I didn't realise my error until a number of weeks later when I got home and checked my records.
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iOS 4.2 should run on the ipad too by the way. There are much easier methods to remote desktop than citrix on iphone and iPad. I often make customer visits without my laptop now and I just take my iPad with me. I use it mostly for presenting and so i just connect it to the projector and off i go. However, there are time when i need to run a web based app that won't run on my ipad and for this i just remote desktop in to my pc which i leave running at home and run the app on that. The ipad has a big enough screen to do this - not sure about iPhone 4 though. One of my colleagues recently did a week long trip to the US to our corporate HQ and was brave enough to leave his pc at home, taking only his iPad. I don't think i trust it enough for that yet 
Still, relying on remote desktop is a bit risky. There are so many things that can go wrong (network connection failure at either end, modem failure at home, pc failure at home).
Still, relying on remote desktop is a bit risky. There are so many things that can go wrong (network connection failure at either end, modem failure at home, pc failure at home).
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GAR Form
<<they are very rapidly nearing a new, single point, electronic system that will replace the GAR.>>. 4 months later; did this ever happen or is it still about to happen?
