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Originally posted by pedropcola:
My airline is going paperless soon. When the computers dump or the cell service/wifi goes away, then it turns into a very long day for everyone. It happens to every airline. Tech is great until it isn't.
We had a paperless system with a backup procedure. The Captain would phone dispatch and write down the release info himself. Weather would be obtained from any legal source. It was very slow, and if the internet were down for me to receive the release normally on my iPad, chances are the dispatcher would be unable to access the info he needed to flight plan the route and fuel, so the backup plan wasn't useful very often.
When a road construction crew dug up the fiber optic trunk line into the entire town, we operated something like 10% of the schedule that day.
Twenty years ago we could get away with Captains filing flight plans and doing weight and balance and takeoff data. Once we went all-ACARs there was no alternative. I doubt many Captains today would remember how to file a flight plan!
Yeah, tech is great until it isn't.
