Airbus has to turn planes off and on again

Stefan Mileschin · 29th July 2019, 07:28

Cannot be bothered with a patch

While Boeing has an issue with planes dropping out of the sky due to safety features being optional, its rival Airbus has a daft issue which means that its owners have to turn the plane off and on again after 149 hours.

Some models of Airbus A350 airliners, need to be hard booted after 149 hours due to a two year old bug that Airbus can't be bothered fixing.

According to the Rogerster despite warnings from the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) first issued two years ago a ,andatory airworthiness directive (AD) reissued earlier this week, EASA urged operators to turn their A350s off and on again to prevent "partial or total loss of some avionics systems or functions."

The revised AD exempts new A350-941s with pre-loaded modified software. For all other A350-941s, operators need to completely power the airliner down before it reaches 149 hours of continuous power-on time. The original 2017 AD was brought about by "in-service events where a loss of communication occurred between some avionics systems and avionics network".

https://fudzilla.com/news/automotive...f-and-on-again

29th July 2019, 07:28	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,738	Airbus has to turn planes off and on again Cannot be bothered with a patch While Boeing has an issue with planes dropping out of the sky due to safety features being optional, its rival Airbus has a daft issue which means that its owners have to turn the plane off and on again after 149 hours. Some models of Airbus A350 airliners, need to be hard booted after 149 hours due to a two year old bug that Airbus can't be bothered fixing. According to the Rogerster despite warnings from the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) first issued two years ago a ,andatory airworthiness directive (AD) reissued earlier this week, EASA urged operators to turn their A350s off and on again to prevent "partial or total loss of some avionics systems or functions." The revised AD exempts new A350-941s with pre-loaded modified software. For all other A350-941s, operators need to completely power the airliner down before it reaches 149 hours of continuous power-on time. The original 2017 AD was brought about by "in-service events where a loss of communication occurred between some avionics systems and avionics network". https://fudzilla.com/news/automotive...f-and-on-again

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