Pana VS R?C IFE.....My thoughts...

[Richard B]

I had great QF round trip to Sydney last week. I noticed the Panasonic IFE on A332 VH-EBN was tending to be a bit buggy, with the flight map refusing to load at all during flight until we were touched down.. Am I alone on this one?

In comparison, the Rockwell Collins setup on A333 VH-QPH was superb in it's operation with no bugs and stood up well for a 5 year old system. The only thing to neg here is the amount of content, but for a 5 hour SYD-PER leg it is more than enough.

TO summarise, i think the new EFX system should use hard keys (possibly mounted within the TFT panel housing) and rely less on the touch component.