Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
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Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#2It's a scary thought that such issues exist, regardless of how common or not.
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#3Normal :) Same for the Boeing 787 back in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907654
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#4Without reading the article it reminds me of the famous software glitch of the Patriot defense system, to work around a rounding error bug it was required to reboot the system if used for not so many hours...
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
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Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#6Software engineering needs some significant improvements if we would like to keep using critical systems like aircrafts. It is getting to the point where serious software problems are impacting everyday life, not in a good sense.
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#7It is a very well know issue with every plane. Sometimes there are no solutions to a problem. You need these hacky solutions. The title is clearly catchy with everything that is going on with Boeing.
But the point is, this reboot process is very well managed and known. So I won't call it scary.
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#8It is a very well know issue with every plane. Sometimes there are no solutions to a problem. You need these hacky solutions. The title is clearly catchy with everything that is going on with Boeing. But the point is, this reboot process is very well managed and known. So I won't call it scary.
I agree it's not scary and it's a good, known workaround. But it's software - we shouldn't say "there are no solutions". The solution is: fix this problem and add long runtime testing to the qa process. Especially if this is a known issue in other planes.
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#9So this is already fixed:
"The remedy for the A350-941 problem is straightforward according to the AD: install Airbus software updates for a permanent cure ..."
And it has the known workaround.
So this has almost nothing to do with Airbus at this point, the directive and the "sighs" uttered by the EU aviation agency are directed at the airlines that won't install the update.
But good distraction from Boeing's woes as long as you only read the headline...
Re: Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard-rebooted after 149 hours
#10and bunch of "engineers" got paid to design that