Don't know much about avionics but I would imagine anything flight-critical is a real-time OS such as VxWorks.
Passenger entertainment systems? Mostly Windows-based, from what I've seen. On Sat, Dec 4, 2021, at 2:10 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > My feelings exactly. You don’t want to be 35,000 feet in the air and > suddenly see the blue screen of death. However, I would be willing to > bet modern avionics mostly run on a proprietary system or Linux kernel. > I would hope so, at least. Maybe Grant knows? > > I never rely on onboard entertainment. If it’s there, great. If not, > I’ve got reading material. Wanted to go retro today, so I watched > “Wayne’s World” on the TPA/DFW flight. Silly and mindless, but > entertaining none the less. > > -D > >> On Dec 4, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I was on some flight once and they had to reboot the airplane 3X. Finally >> got it to work. Was not encouraging. >> >> I was on a long flight once, sitting in Row1. The movie computer would not >> work. I spent 30min with a coupla FAs trying to get it running. No luck. The >> manual had no clue but it did have a small display to try to do something. >> It was some flavor of windows but had very limited capabilities. The FAs >> spent a lot of the time cussing quietly at the thing as the natives were >> restless with no electronic pacifiers until we gave up. >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> >>> On Dec 4, 2021, at 12:59 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Taking a quick trip out to the Flagstaff house for a week. Caught the >>> early flight to DFW out of TPA, a later model (“neo”) Airbus of some >>> flavor. Got delayed over an hour at the gate because they couldn’t get the >>> flight computers to boot. They had to completely power down the aircraft, >>> which still didn’t help. >>> >>> Ultimately, they had to get in the rear cargo hold to replace electronics >>> before we were airworthy and could push back. >>> >>> Got into DFW with 10 minutes to get from C to E. Did my best OJ but came up >>> to the gate as the jet bridge was rolling back. Poo. Holy cow does it suck >>> to run with a face mask on. >>> >>> Thanks to American’s iPhone app they had already given me the opportunity >>> to rebook. I have to go to PHX now, then puddle jump to FLG, a whopping >>> 18-25 minute flight in most cases. You often spend more time taxiing than >>> in the air on that flight. >>> >>> Whined to an agent in DFW and got upgraded to first, so that helps. >>> >>> Hope no more of my aircraft require rebooting today. >>> >>> -D >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
