Peter wrote:
if you are to limit outside connections to a VPN then how do you lock the device down to only ever use the VPN?
It is possible with a company profile: https://www.howtogeek.com/218851/how-to-enable-always-on-vpn-on-an-iphone-or-ipad/
Interesting… IOS8 or higher so this must be quite recent. That’s a real heavy-duty approach, requiring a re-initialisation of the device. Doubly interesting since the Blackberry’s main USP for corporates was the “VPN” type security. How was this issue solved before?
Peter wrote:
I took this rather poor pic last night. Can any airline pilot explain what function the Ipad is performing?
That doesn’t look like an iPad, they don’t have a row of buttons (on the lower bezel in the case of this image).
Peter,
What you saw in that cockpit is not an iPad although many wish it was. It’s a Panasonic Toughpad. It’s just a computer basically as it runs Windows 7. It is equipped with the crappiest touchscreen you have ever seen in your life. It’s about on par with the 1990s touch screen with which you had to use a stylus. It does not have a stylus but it drives just about everyone mad.
The application that is running at the time of the photo is the Airbus LPC applications that does all the loadsheet and performance calculation. On there, Lido is also installed as well as the application used for company documentation. There is also a custom page with some quick access to documentation pages such as winter ops and CPDLC regions.
There is no GPS no connectivity no communication with the outside world. A network port exists but I’ve not seen it used.
