Four flights on four Lufthansa aircraft (two A340-600, two A330-300). On each approach, as the landing gear was lowered, the IFE (in-flight entertainment system) would spontaneously reset, and present you with the “Wilkommen/Welcome” screen. If you were trying to follow the approach on the airshow page, you would have to navigate through the language selection and menu pages to get back to it. Why?
And a query: who cares about the “outside temperature” information on the airshow? I mean, at FL320 and up it’s going to be around -56F, innit? Really useful. Why can’t we have a “Pro Airshow” option, with the really interesting stuff like mach number, airspeed, heading, wind, FL, VS, and so forth? No need to make it multilingual, since English is the standard language for this stuff, and it’s mostly symbolic/numeric anyway. Overlay it on a moving map, give the user zoom control, etc.
By the way, our route from Chennai to Frankfurt this morning was interesting. NW across India to the Indian Ocean, up the coast to Pakistan, then straight across Pakistan and Iran towards the southern tip of the Caspian Sea, then west to the Turkish border, pretty much avoiding Iraqi airspace. Cool.