Comment by lovecg
6 years ago
Is it common to leave the electronics running for that long anyway? My naive understanding is that it would be rebooted after every flight anyway.
6 years ago
Is it common to leave the electronics running for that long anyway? My naive understanding is that it would be rebooted after every flight anyway.
Ideally a plane is spending as little time as possible not doing anything. It's on the ground for as short as possible and there's ideally always something happening that needs monitoring or communication. Restarting a bunch of low-level systems just because doesn't fit into that, so apparently a 51 day span without powering it off wouldn't be unheard of.