Originally Posted by
kenpimentel
Question: The wifi system will no longer work because all satellites will be missing. Is the error generated something the Captain/FO would be aware of or deal with? Or, are the attendants the ones to discover the error? Would there be an error code?
WI-FI errors/system failures are not normally shown as any sort of error message in the flight deck, it would be something the senior cabin crew member would see on the WI-FI system screen, that they would then raise a defect in the cabin log for an engineer to look at the next time the aircraft was on the ground. What you have to remember is that virtually all WI-FI systems on aircraft have been added to the aircraft in recent years as an additional system. The only thing the pilot ha any control over is the ability to switch the system off from the flight deck.