B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Workload; Confusion; Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft
In the new version of Jeppesen FD-Pro there is a setting under Airport Moving Map (AMM) that says 'set as default on landing.' This setting cannot be turned off. If you turn it off; it turns itself back on. This is bad.The AMM is a nice tool; but it should be the pilot's choice whether or not to display it at certain times -- particularly after landing. Here's the problem with the AMM: When you zoom out; the taxiway names disappear.Consider this scenario: As you turn off the runway at a large airport you look down at the map (which is the AMM; not the standard taxi chart; because the AMM comes on automatically and we cannot turn that feature off). You get some complicated taxi instructions and then zoom out the AMM so you can get a general big-picture idea of where you're supposed to go. But when you zoom out the AMM; the taxiway names disappear. So now you have to switch back to the standard taxi chart and zoom/position that chart to get the information you need. That's a lot of heads-down iPad manipulation immediately after exiting the runway; and it's not safe.Give us control over whether or not to automatically display the AMM after landing. The AMM may work fine at a small airport; but at a large airport when given taxi instructions that are multiple miles long; the AMM is useless for big-picture situational awareness.
Air carrier Captain reported the Airport Moving Map (AMM) on the Jeppesen FD-Pro cannot be turned off by the flight crew. Zooming out on the AMM taxi chart causes taxiway names to disappear resulting in increased workload and heads-down iPad work during after landing taxi.