Domestic flights with WIFI flights

You can also swipe microblogs and send emails on airplanes. Yesterday afternoon, the first domestic flight equipped with wireless Internet access received passenger experience. The flight goes from Beijing to Chengdu.

Air China introduced that the Airbus A330-300 is currently equipped with a wireless Internet access system. A wireless router and a server must be installed on the aircraft. A signal receiving antenna is also installed on the top of the aircraft. The staff of Air China's product service department said that the equipment is about 200 kilograms, which fully meets the safety standards and will not affect the normal operation of the flight. When the aircraft climbs to an altitude of 3,000 meters, the equipment can be started. After about 10,000 meters of stable flight, the equipment is turned on. Passengers using computers and pads can search for wireless signals.

Air China’s opening of the wireless Internet connection is based on a world-wide Internet connection of Maritime Satellite, which enables the on-board wireless LAN to integrate into the entire Internet. Passengers can communicate with the outside world through the Internet application of the on-board network platform. The system consists of three parts: satellites, aeronautical earth stations and airborne stations. The on-board network can be used by more than 300 passengers in the entire cabin.

Passengers on the plane can use laptops, tablets, and on-board internet connections to send and receive emails, swipe microblogs, read news, etc. On-board internet access is completely free for passengers. However, because of the limitation of bandwidth, the Internet does not support the transmission of pictures and audio and video. In addition, the e-mail does not support the attachment sending and opening. In the future, the picture sending and receiving functions will be added.

“Does not support mobile Internet access.” According to the person in charge of Air China’s product service department, this mobile Internet system now only provides network for notebook and tablet users, as mobile phones may affect the machine communication.

It is understood that the fares for flights with Internet features will not increase as a result. Fan Cheng, secretary of the Air China Party Committee, stated that he would strive to complete the conversion of nearly 80 second-class wide-body aircrafts in the second half of next year. By then, Air China passengers could generally enjoy the convenience brought by the Internet.

Doubt 1 Why can’t use the mobile phone to access the Internet? Air China: The aircraft uses satellite signals and radar to communicate with the ground to control the flight. The signal from the mobile phone may interfere with the pilot signal of the aircraft. Therefore, the National Civil Aviation Law stipulates that the use of the aircraft during the flight is prohibited. Mobile phone. With the continuous development of mobile phone technology, aircraft communication technology and inflight network system, a breakthrough may be achieved in the future.

2 Whether the onboard network leaks Air China: The onboard network has a very high level of security, and in some sense even higher than the security level of the ground system, and passengers use their own tablet or laptop to access the Internet, just like using their own computer on the ground. Like the Internet.

Experienced the micro-blog flight on the plane, the “leaked” flight took off after half an hour. The flight altitude of the plane has reached 10,000 meters. Reporters have come up with various tablet computers and notebooks to experience the on-board network. But how to brush wireless connection, or no movement. Staff told reporters that the system is unable to connect steadily.

After another half an hour, the reporter first searched for a wifi connection on the wireless network on the tablet computer, and quickly got on the network after obtaining the password from the staff. It is understood that after the flight experience, the on-board network will be open to passengers free of charge. There will be no need for login passwords. Passengers can log in directly to the "AIR CHINA" wireless network.

Connected to the wireless network passengers also need to register a user name to continue the next Internet activity. You can register successfully by name, password, seat number, and ID number. Passengers need to log on to Air China's website first. The left side of the page lists six icons including email, Weibo, stocks, shopping, and chat. Passengers can click to enter as needed.

The reporter clicked on the Weibo and immediately popped up the daily use of the Weibo interface. Writing the Weibo can be sent out in about 1 second. It is worth mentioning that the Weibo is associated with the flight coordinates and each one comes from a high-altitude Weibo. Suffixes have an altitude display. After 2 minutes, you can see the users reply and forward on Weibo. However, images such as user avatars on Weibo cannot be displayed.

In addition, the on-board staff introduced that the aircraft will be automatically disconnected when the aircraft is lowered to less than 3,000 meters.