Jurassicjockey wrote:
I find it very frustrating that with the availability of sat. internet access in the back, with the resultant access to excellent real-time wx data including radar, the SLF have better weather information than we do up front at times.
Once the cockpit depends on something, it has to be fairly bullet-proof and the kinds of drop outs that you can get from satellite based internet let alone servers operated by third-parties. Having once worked on avionics, I can say that getting anything new built into a commercial cockpit is a long and painful process.