Help your pilot fly!
What the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) calls "novel and unusual" apparently entails some sort of direct network connectivity between the avionics (think: cockpit) and the passenger entertainment system (think: dude with his iPhone connected to the in-seat USB port) in the latest Boeing 737 models.
The good news is, if you get bored on your next flight, and the movies are all *meh*, you might be able to connect to the cockpit and help the pilot do his/her job. Pilots, these days, are all stressed out, and I'm sure they appreciate help from all the XBox and Nintendo pilots sitting in the main cabin! A completely new form of auto-pilot: Flying a plane through majority decision by the geeks in the cabin!
I wonder how many years we are away from a cross-platform virus that moves from Joe Bloe's PC at home, to his phone, to his car, to his tablet, to his airplane. I hope it never happens. But the "internet of things" manufacturers, especially the manufacturers of massive moving things, seem to be very keen to get us there.
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Anonymous
Jun 11th 2014
1 decade ago
Wonder what would happen if the FAA Execs were to be on a plane that had compromised the C&C.. Oh wait.. they fly "private" Gulf Streams on the taxpayers.
This very myopic decision coupled with the "drones" is a cocktail for disaster. People, start looking up, even though 99% of people are looking down at their "smart device".. is that a shooting star or meteor? Ah.. nope!
PUZZLEWITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
Jun 11th 2014
1 decade ago