Todos
← Back to Squawk list
Dreamliner computer glitch forces Polish airline to switch jets
A computer malfunction on a Boeing (BA) 787 Dreamliner forced LOT (LOT.UL) to call off a transatlantic flight from Warsaw late on Monday and switch the passengers onto another jet instead, the Polish airline said. (finance.yahoo.com) Más...This is just my opinion... Flying the 787 is my job and I LOVE the airplane. I've flown a bunch of different Boeings, Falcons, Lears, etc.. and this is, by far, my favorite. I do miss the old 727 with it's round dials and manual navigation, I was much busier in the cockpit back then (Wow, only 12 years ago -- sigh...) but the automation of the 787 is really not too much more than the 76 or 77. It's the skin, what's under the skin (i.e. the data bus architecture), the fly-by-wire, the two computers running the whole show, and the freaking awesome advanced engines that make the plane. Not to mention that it just looks sexy as hell, for an airplane lol That being said, when certain problems occur you fix them the same way you fix your laptop when it's hanging up.. you turn off the power and restart it!! I've had to do this on only one occasion, a complete power down and ground up restart of the "Common Computing Resources". It worked but did take a couple of hours. We made up half the delay by flying faster (M0.87) over the course of a 13 hr flight, still with a fuel burn that looks more like a 737, in a very quiet cockpit, at a 6K ft cabin altitude with relatively humid cabin air, active turbulence mitigation, and loving every minute of it. I think I'm a fairly decent judge of aircraft, having flown more than 100 types from L-18s to single engine jets to the 747 and I LOVE the 787, notwithstanding the less and less frequent hiccups. Still learning every time I fly it, but I'm not in a big hurry to change airplanes. :)
By the way, most of the small problems we see are fixed with a laptop from the cockpit, or by "re-racking" the hardware in the avionics bay just like we did with the old 727s, 737s, Falcons, etc..
By the way, most of the small problems we see are fixed with a laptop from the cockpit, or by "re-racking" the hardware in the avionics bay just like we did with the old 727s, 737s, Falcons, etc..
A comment from one who knows!
Right On Daniel...been telling people this from the start. To me this is like giving operators a 2014 designed car in 1987. Everything is different apart from the basic flying ability we all SHOULD have. It has a proper yoke, a proper power throttle lever and a whole bunch of high tech systems including your basic lithium battery that some airport fire fighters know feck all about when they are on fire. Good on ya for posting this. All we need now are the goodies from the black ops and we can get NYC to Sydney in two hours at 150k feet.
On the same day, two 737s, four A320s, one A340, one 747, two A330s, and a Piper Cub all had to scrub a flight over technical issues. Boy, THAT was news!
I mean really, what's next? "787 had to delay flight due to malfunctioning toilet!!"
Surely there is something more interesting and challenging than nit-picking the awesome 787. It has less issues to date than the 747, 777, and the A380 at this point in their deployment.
Let's see some real news.
Thanks. TR
I mean really, what's next? "787 had to delay flight due to malfunctioning toilet!!"
Surely there is something more interesting and challenging than nit-picking the awesome 787. It has less issues to date than the 747, 777, and the A380 at this point in their deployment.
Let's see some real news.
Thanks. TR
[This poster has been suspended.]