Many American Airlines flights have been delayed due to a software error on iPads. After an upgrade of navigation maps apparently fell of the Apple tablet that can be used in the cockpit for flight management tasks screen out.
Because of a software error on iPads have dozens of flights of American Airlines delayed. So Bill Jacarusos not lifted off plane because successively failed the tablet displays of pilot and copilot. About Twitter passengers reported as their experiences.
The Verge quoted a spokeswoman for the airline American Airlines: “Some flights are affected by the problem with a software application on the pilot iPads. In some cases, the plane had to return to the gate, to access a Wi-Fi connection and correct the errors. We are working to bring the machine as soon as possible on the way. “
” a few dozen flights “referred Another speaker and assured that the problem detected and found a solution for it was , The software and navigation maps for crashing pilot iPads were provided according Quartz Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing.
2012 was American Airlines, the approval of the US air traffic control FAA, iPads in all phases of flight from gate to gate use as Electronic Flight Bag, thereby reducing the paper burden on pilots. This name refers to the traditional pilot case (english Flight Bag) with large documents such as operating manual and navigation maps and weighing up to 18 kilograms. In electronic form on Notebook or tablet, the documents may be kept weight-saving, as well as the software allows automated functions such as power calculations.
If European airlines are as Electronic Flight Bags have long notebooks and tablets running Windows XP in use, while the operator demonstrates to Apple’s iPads remained skeptical as consumer products. Lufthansa chose now to replace their existing systems through Microsoft’s Windows Tablets Surface Pro 3. For this is the software giant provides over 5000 devices. Pilots should be able to connect your tablet to the onboard electronics to receive automatic updates of nautical and organizational data and real-time information on wind, weather or impending turmoil.
[With material from Bernd Kling, ZDNet.de]
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