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A solo corporate jet pilot's tablet overheated in the sunlight during vectors to ewr. He switched tablets but it too overheated. During this time he was slowing to comply with an ATC request. Finally; the initial tablet became operational and remained out of sunlight.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1290371 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201508 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | EWR.Airport |
| State Reference | NJ |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Light Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Descent Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | Vectors |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Tablet |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 10500 Flight Crew Type 3000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Speed All Types |
Narrative:
During very busy traffic saturated I failed to comply with assigned speed during approach phase into ewr. ATC assigned 180 KTS. I was doing 240 KIAS and set an initial power setting and slowed. It was at this time the pilot side [tablet] shutdown due to overheating. I surmised it was due to the being in direct sunlight. I switched with the copilots and that failed soon after due to being in sunlight. ATC requested say speed which I responded '167 KTS increasing to 180.' after a few minutes the other [tablet] cooled and was serviceable if I held out of sunlight so I switched a several times to reference approach plate. Very distracting!!the overheating [tablet] problem has occurred now for the second time. We are going back to printed charts.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A solo corporate jet pilot's tablet overheated in the sunlight during vectors to EWR. He switched tablets but it too overheated. During this time he was slowing to comply with an ATC request. Finally; the initial tablet became operational and remained out of sunlight.
Narrative: During very busy traffic saturated I failed to comply with assigned speed during approach phase into EWR. ATC assigned 180 KTS. I was doing 240 KIAS and set an initial power setting and slowed. It was at this time the pilot side [tablet] shutdown due to overheating. I surmised it was due to the being in direct sunlight. I switched with the copilots and that failed soon after due to being in sunlight. ATC requested say speed which I responded '167 KTS increasing to 180.' After a few minutes the other [tablet] cooled and was serviceable if I held out of sunlight so I switched a several times to reference approach plate. Very distracting!!The overheating [tablet] problem has occurred now for the second time. We are going back to printed charts.
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