1 hour ago, Stearmandriver said:

Crew sked is contractually prohibited from contacting crews via ACARS.  If dispatch needs to talk about something important, they'll Satcom call you.  Just clear the scratchpad message and ignore the spam 😉.

Huh? This may be the case at your operator but the Airbus operator we referenced for this absolutely get ADC every single leg - they aren't from crew scheduling. 

1 hour ago, Aamir said:

Huh? This may be the case at your operator but the Airbus operator we referenced for this absolutely get ADC every single leg - they aren't from crew scheduling. 

I had to look up what an ADC message is.  We'd call that a delay report, which can be sent at crew discretion but certainly won't be an annoying distractor if they don't (as I'm understanding this can be from the OP?).  But I guess I'm confused - why would a crew get this after every departure, if there's no delay?

Opens voice mail from HQ to listen. "A very gracious hello. Is this the Captain to whom I'm speaking"? "Just look at those lovely clouds"! 🙂

16 hours ago, sonny147 said:

i think you have to be under 25 maybe lol 

Age?  IQ?

14 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

I had to look up what an ADC message is.  We'd call that a delay report, which can be sent at crew discretion but certainly won't be an annoying distractor if they don't (as I'm understanding this can be from the OP?).  But I guess I'm confused - why would a crew get this after every departure, if there's no delay?

Yep - things like final loadsheet arriving on the taxi-out, etc is quite common also. 

17 hours ago, sonny147 said:

if you ignore the wife sooner or  later you gonna pay the price ! that's for sure 🙂

sometimes wish I could just click wife messages away 😉 

15 hours ago, Aamir said:

Yep - things like final loadsheet arriving on the taxi-out, etc is quite common also. 

Oh my no.  We don't push until we have numbers. 

There seems to be an odd level of tolerance for crew distraction in other regions, but we don't play those games.  If the bean counters need to track delays they can do so; pilots operate airplanes and we don't allow distractions for corporate convenience here.  Just different strokes,I guess.

5 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

Oh my no.  We don't push until we have numbers. 

There seems to be an odd level of tolerance for crew distraction in other regions, but we don't play those games.  If the bean counters need to track delays they can do so; pilots operate airplanes and we don't allow distractions for corporate convenience here.  Just different strokes,I guess.

Final numbers arrive on paper, then they arrive via ACARS - the ACARS might turn up a little late, so can be during the taxi out. The ADC is an automated system - so it is relatively dispassionate on when it turns up. With that being said though, it seems reasonably non invasive, no aural alert, a small notice on the ECAM about a message, and that's pretty much it. 

@AamirWould it be possible for us to have the option to disable the ADC in the future, if desired ?

On 11/4/2024 at 11:25 PM, ailchim said:

Nobody understands Discord or where it came from or why.

You have to go with the time or you will be out of order very quickly..

And that said it is not that bad you should only be interested in it !

cheers 😉

23 minutes ago, Ch4rly972 said:

@AamirWould it be possible for us to have the option to disable the ADC in the future, if desired ?

I don't think ADC goes far enough. I want Fenix Scheduling to call me at 3 a.m. to inform me that I have been assigned a trip with a 5 a.m. check-in. It will be a four-day trip with four legs a day, with wonderful layovers in Dayton, Ohio, Rockford, Illinois, and Harlingen, Texas. And the miserable captain I hate flying with will be my captain for the entire four-day trip.

Edited November 6, 20241 yr by Mike T

2 hours ago, pmplayer said:

You have to go with the time or you will be out of order very quickly..

And that said it is not that bad you should only be interested in it !

cheers 😉

Don't start jumping to conclusions about people.  Discord is a typical techie solution.  No structure, part cartoon show, designed for the benefit of the techies not their clients. 

2 hours ago, ailchim said:

Don't start jumping to conclusions about people. 

I don't do that with what I said, in any case it wasn't meant that way and the other is just the way everyone sees it and I see it a little differently..

cheers 😉