Glass panels: what OS?

Kyler Laird wrote:

(Paul Tomblin) writes:

I remember a comp.risks article many years ago where one maker of avionics
was said to prefer Windows because if something went wrong with the OS,
somebody else would have to fix it,

*That* would be funny. I can imagine a bunch of panels being labeled
"inop" until Microsoft decides it wants to generate a fix.


Worse: A virus comes with a Jepp database upgrade. Yikes!

- Andrew

It's already happened.

Dave Reinhart


Andrew Gideon wrote:

Kyler Laird wrote:

(Paul Tomblin) writes:

I remember a comp.risks article many years ago where one maker of avionics
was said to prefer Windows because if something went wrong with the OS,
somebody else would have to fix it,

*That* would be funny. I can imagine a bunch of panels being labeled
"inop" until Microsoft decides it wants to generate a fix.


Worse: A virus comes with a Jepp database upgrade. Yikes!

- Andrew

David Reinhart wrote:

It's already happened.

Really? Wow. Have you a citation I could read? I'd like very much to
learn more about this.

- Andrew

It was in a discussion either in Flying or AOPA Pilot about Jeppesen's
Skywriter system, the one that lets you download database upgrades and load
them onto a datacard. As I recall the PC was infected with the virus
passed it on. Sorry, I can't give you which month it was.

Dave Reinhart


Andrew Gideon wrote:

David Reinhart wrote:

It's already happened.

Really? Wow. Have you a citation I could read? I'd like very much to
learn more about this.

- Andrew