Boeing Sells Jepp

[flyingpotato]

Mixed reactions

 

[roundout]

Just remember, when corporate transactions such as this happen, things rarely get better.

 

[Roger Roger]

Just remember, when corporate transactions such as this happen, things rarely get better.

Which, I don’t really care about re: jeppesen and their airline clients, but this is gonna blooooowwww for anyone who depends on ForeFlight

 

[mikecweb]

Which, I don’t really care about re: jeppesen and their airline clients, but this is gonna blooooowwww for anyone who depends on ForeFlight

I mean hot take but i care a little about what happens with Jeppesen.

 

[Roger Roger]

I mean hot take but i care a little about what happens with Jeppesen.

i guess I mean that as end users we’ll get insulated from a lot of the suck that our company IT and purchasing departments are gonna have to deal with.

 

[SteveC]

I keep seeing “Boeing sells Jeep”…

 

[Wardogg]

So we’re all going to Garmin Pilot now? That’ll go well with the G5000s I’m flying now. Someone needs to outlaw proline 21.

 

[roundout]

i guess I mean that as end users we’ll get insulated from a lot of the suck that our company IT and purchasing departments are gonna have to deal with.

Unless they go all Frontier And say "eff it, lido is the way"

 

[derg]

Oh boy. I've been reading Jepps since the 80's, I hate to see what type of mickey mouse crap the new owner is going to pull.

 

[Lawman]

Which, I don’t really care about re: jeppesen and their airline clients, but this is gonna blooooowwww for anyone who depends on ForeFlight

That would be most of the DOD.

I enjoyed sending a screenshot of this to a couple people in the acquisitions chain 15 minutes before the end of the work day.

 

[moxiepilot]

Great. I cringe at the first major update revision for all of the flight decks using an EFB

 

[Minuteman]

Oh boy. I've been reading Jepps since the 80's, I hate to see what type of mickey mouse crap the new owner is going to pull.

You wouldn't believe how much dumb stuff Boeing had to be talked-out-of.

They wanted to rename the company because "Jeppesen" wasn't aligned with their branding.

edit: call 'em "MAX charts" or some shi.

 

[BobDDuck]

You wouldn't believe how much dumb stuff Boeing had to be talked-out-of.

They wanted to rename the company because "Jeppesen" wasn't aligned with their branding.

edit: call 'em "MAX charts" or some shi.

That and redoing the formatting on the pages so everything was a 7-XX page.

 

[CFI A&P]

You wouldn't believe how much dumb stuff Boeing had to be talked-out-of.

They wanted to rename the company because "Jeppesen" wasn't aligned with their branding.

edit: call 'em "MAX charts" or some shi.

Elrey would disapprove.

 

[derg]

You wouldn't believe how much dumb stuff Boeing had to be talked-out-of.

They wanted to rename the company because "Jeppesen" wasn't aligned with their branding.

edit: call 'em "MAX charts" or some shi.

When does your NDA run out? I want to hear it ALL!

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Great. I cringe at the first major update revision for all of the flight decks using an EFB

My experience with JeppView hasn’t been great. Boeing hasn't exactly been running on all cylinders lately, either. The sad part is that it can actually get worse. I imagine airlines have some sort of SLA that the new owners will be bound to, so they probably can't completely tank it.

 

[Roger Roger]

My experience with JeppView hasn’t been great. Boeing hasn't exactly been running on all cylinders lately, either. The sad part is that it can actually get worse. I imagine airlines have some sort of SLA that the new owners will be bound to, so they probably can't completely tank it.

My hope was that they would abandon jeppview and make an airline-optimized version of ForeFlight. I’m sure the new corporate overlords will make ForeFlight more expensive and less usable instead.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

My hope was that they would abandon jeppview and make an airline-optimized version of ForeFlight. I’m sure the new corporate overlords will make ForeFlight more expensive and less usable instead.

As far as I know, you can use Jepp plates in Foreflight, but it costs extra and idt airlines want to pay for it. Funnily enough, Spirit paid for Foreflight and we could use it as a secondary option.

 

[Wardogg]

As far as I know, you can use Jepp plates in Foreflight, but it costs extra and idt airlines want to pay for it. Funnily enough, Spirit paid for Foreflight and we could use it as a secondary option.

Can confirm. We pay for a “pro version” which allows you to have foreflight on 2 devices but only display the Jepp charts on 1 of them. *shrugs*

 

[Fixtur]

We use FAA charts at my current shop. Was a bit of a (re) adjustment coming from Jepp, but all the info is the same, if you know where to find it.

We also use FF as part of our EFB program, and it is great for that. I really hope they don't screw it up.