Air China's first sky-air interconnection flight, wireless internet access free

BCC Beijing July 3 News According to the voice of China's "news in the vertical and horizontal" report, for many micro-bo, micro-credit control, on the plane can also be able to surf the Internet how good! In the same way, for business travellers, it is no doubt the service they want to be able to send emails and check stock quotes on airplanes. This afternoon, people's expectations will be expected to become a reality! The first aircraft on the plane will be able to surf the internet flight this afternoon, this trip to Beijing Non-stop flights to Chengdu, the air will achieve the real ground and the air network of the true interconnection, the plane flew to the sky, will no longer be an island, the aircraft can also send micro-blog, sent an e-mail. In afterall high altitude can log on the internet! This afternoon, Air China will provide an Internet communication service on its flight to Chengdu, which will make a major breakthrough in the communications of the Chinese civil aviation aircraft. However, people can not help but ask, before Air China, Shenzhen Airlines and other carriers have launched the aircraft Internet services, the launch of the Internet services and what has been different from the past? China Civil Aviation Administration Cadre Institute Airworthiness Approval Department Dr Dingxiaoyu said that the internet was previously said to be on the fly, only to build a wireless network on the plane. Dingxiaoyu: On the one hand, can realize the internal network communication, on the other hand, the aircraft in advance of the system loading a variety of services, such as loading some films, aircraft personnel can be realized through the system shopping and purchase tickets. In the wireless local area Network service provided by the airplane, the passengers ' shopping and buying tickets are not in sync with the Internet. Dingxiaoyu: In the actual technical processing is the plane to the ground, the data stored on the aircraft exported and then imported into the relevant system to deal with, in fact, is not really real-time interoperability. In accordance with the current technical requirements, the aircraft to fly to 10,000 meters (about 3000 meters) above, in order to open the Internet service. Then the plane is thousands of meters from the ground high altitude, in the high-speed flight, how and the ground to achieve the internet connected? Dingxiaoyu explains that there are four links involved. Dingxiaoyu: Through the aircraft installed in the internal wireless network and satellite communications, and then through the satellite and the construction of the main station on the ground to communicate, the main ground station and the main network operators in China to connect. Passengers have the experience when flying, and flight attendants will remind people to turn off their phones and electronic devices, including laptops. Since the plane can surf the internet, why not let people drive the phone? This is because it is a cautionary tale to have serious consequences of not shutting down the equipment when the plane takes off. Dingxiaoyu: In the history of the flight, the United States has occurred many times because of the use of mobile phones and other electronic devices, the aircraft have some important communications and navigation system anomalies or failures, these systems for the safe operation of aircraft is very important. Since electronic equipment signals have an impact on aircraft flight, does the Internet have any impact on aircraft safety? In fact, on the flight this afternoon, when the plane takes off and lands, it also needs to shut down the phone and the electronic equipment. And the plane wants to get a running world of interconnection network systemQualification to undergo rigorous testing. Dingxiaoyu: When taking off and landing, it is necessary to check whether the installed system has a security impact on the various airborne systems of the normal running flight, and only if the judgment has no effect, can the implementation and application be approved. This requires a rigorous review by the Civil Aviation Authority before it can be put into operation. In the office, home, cafes, hotels using WiFi, people have become accustomed to a wireless router, wireless signal transmission, our mobile phone, notebook can be wireless internet. And it seems to be quite high-tech to log on to WiFi at afterall altitude flight. And experts in the industry say it's not as sophisticated as it might seem. Dingxiaoyu: Technically speaking, there is no essential difference from the wireless network at home, so the technical difficulty is not very big. But once you have to run on the flight, it is important to consider the flight safety, so there are a lot of tests to verify the flight has no impact on the operation. This requires high input costs and technical strength. In the United States, more than One-third of the main line aircraft have been installed in the open space Internet access system, and the cost of using this system is not low. Dingxiaoyu: The United States is about a few dollars to more than 10 dollars an hour, in Europe about more than 10 euros an hour. At present, it is a trend to install air-space interconnection systems on airplanes. Dingxiaoyu said that from the operation of China's airlines to analyze the future will be vigorously popularize the Internet services on the aircraft, but will not let passengers pay for this. Dingxiaoyu: In fact, airlines directly in this way to profit is not a special reality, for high-end business travellers, they are relatively low price sensitivity for fares, but for flights can provide service sensitivity is relatively high. If they are unable to communicate with the outside world on a more than 10-hour international flight, they may cause very large losses. It may be more expensive, but he will choose to provide air to the Internet flights to ride, so airlines in the provision of such services on the flight discounts are less, or even no discount, so that airlines can collect the relevant fees.