Large Wi-Fi strikes from UNITED only hit some disorders.
Several primary regional aircraft that were already equipped with Starlink Sarellites have seen that the service has been turned off due to radio intervention, TPG can reports exclusively.
To date, United has installed Starlink on nearly twenty regional regional aircraft, and over the past few days, all flights managed by these aircraft were operating without connecting to the Internet.
As for the reason that these aircraft are not connected to the Internet, the airline has received reports of radio interference between the VHF antennas used by pilots to communicate with air traffic monitors and Starlinks.
Specifically, the pilots reported radio lines after the radio transmitters were completed on the aircraft equipped with the new Starlink antennas.
Improvity of caution, United has stopped all Starlink contacts over her fleet and since then Starlink has been repairing.
In a statement confirming the exclusive report of the TPG, a UNITED spokesman participated that “Starlink is now installed on about twenty United regional aircraft. The UNITED and Starlink teams are working together to process a few reports on fixed overlap while operating the Wi-Fi system, which is fairly common with any new Wi-Fi provider.
This type of radio overlap is not uncommon when new contact solutions on board, according to United. The airline also repeated that this overlap does not constitute the safety of the flight issue.
In fact, when United launched a Viasat connection to a part of the main line fleet, it has also seen a similar type of overlap that requires a quick solution.
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The good news is that UNITED and Starlink have already determined a solution to the radio overlap, and that they are actively working on the affected plane.
To date, you have received about a third of the affected aircraft the repair and fly again with the high-speed Wi-Fi, while the remaining planes will be re-connected after the repair application.
United will not withdraw aircraft outside the service to apply these repairs; Instead, you will wait until the affected planes revolve through regularly scheduled maintenance visits to apply changes. (In this way, United will not need to cancel any trips to fix the overlap problem.)
United is currently planning to re -empower Starlink on affected aircraft in the next few weeks, but note that this schedule may slip. Of course, this interruption will affect hundreds of summer posts who may have been excited to try Starlink on United.
To date, United has installed Starlink exclusively on the regional Embraer E175, and this issue of interference does not slow down the planned carrier.
The airline will reinstall another 40 E175 aircraft this month, and then will start doing the same through its CRJ-550 regional aircraft in the coming weeks.
The airline is still planning to get its full fleet of the dual UNIDEDss regional aircraft (CRJ-550 and E175 of the aircraft) that have been fully formed by the end of the year.
Last fall, United announced that it would modify its entire fleet with high -speed stars connection. The best part is that the connection is free. All you need is to calculate the number of kilometers to access the Internet on the largest possible number of devices that you can carry on the plane.
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In mid -May, United flew its first trips in its revenue with Starlink, only nine months since the bomb announced the first time that it would provide one of the best Internet solutions via satellite on its fleet completely.
We hope this overlapping problem is simply a small stumbling block on the Starlink installations, because the current United Wi-Fi solutions are late for the big upgrade.
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