ACARS poll

[Todd Meek]

Well I voted I don't use Acars in the poll because to be quite frank by the time I plan my flight and I'm ready to go at the gate I totally forget to open the acars program and I just do my flight, so personally doesn't really matter to me which one we use cause I can't gurantee I would remember to use it in the first place. I would have to go against Jeff though and say I don't want to see a mandation on having to use an ACARS program to file a flight. I think the pilot should have the "Option" to either auto file or manually file like I do.

[Theodore Martin]

Two points were made in this thread that I would like to emphasize. First we have talked about adding support for XPlane to our VA at some time in the future. We should keep in mind this is mind for any new software we use.

Second I agree with Jeff that at some point I would like to see our flight recording system required for filing flights. If we do decide to eventually make automatic FREP's mandatory it is best that we have freeware software instead of forcing our pilots to purchase software.