Same here, I've got movies in my phone, tablet and laptop. Podcasts on the phone and a real paper book in case all else fails. Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 2:11 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> 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
