Originally Posted by
rcoight
So is the system so stupid that it doesn’t even warn of the impending need to power off if it hasn’t been done by the correct interval?
Why does it let the aircraft take off if it will decide to shut everything down half way through the flight?
I think you're crediting "the system" with intelligence, when it fact it's just following a set of pre-defined rules.
It doesn't look ahead. It doesn't anticipate. It doesn't know that it will have to shut down. It just reaches a particular timed point at which (if I understand correctly) the software falls over.
That's assuming of course that it is a software issue. Which given that a 'fix' was apparently made available several years ago is by no means nailed on.