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>> Leaving cockpit a few minutes. The horror! For an airliner, yes, the horror. Why would you want to downplay the dangers of pilots losing access to their flight manuals?
> Why would you want to downplay the dangers of pilots losing access to their flight manuals? If it happens at an actually critical time, they can have the ATC read the relevant sections to them.
Why on earth would you entrust anything critical to a proprietary, consumer-grade product? Seems like a bad idea from the get-go...
There are fallbacks, there are fallbacks even for the fallbacks and finally, the pilots themselves are trained in the event of total failures on all ends.
In addition, it was a software glitch. We don't know what kind of glitch it was but if it was, it doesn't matter if they were using proper-graded billion dollar worth of products, software glitches exist everywhere.
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Yes, the app crashed. That was no doubt an app bug. The iPads also crashed. That's eyebrow-raising, and definitely an iPad glitch. The airline will fix the bug and it won't happen again. But relying on a closed, unauditable platform to keep any sort of safety-critical data in these conditions seems absolutely unconvincing to me.
I'm interested in a better solution/idea if you have any.
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You got me curious. Can you explain? Etymologically there's no good word for map (mappa meant napkin, charta meant a sheet of paper) but 'tabula' was used in Classical times.
http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/learn_diff_map_chart.... Aeronautical charts extrapolate from this because being in command of an aircraft is really just commanding a different kind of vessel. Port, starboard, manifest, fix, captain, first officer, and hull are all valid aviation terms, for example, with roots in the sea. A chart is not a map.