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I want to play and I'm 20,000 feet in the air I don't know if you can hear me but it looks pretty clear everyone knows in-flight Wi-Fi usually sucks but this plane lets you watch YouTube without tearing your hair out it's got fast satellite internet and it works whether you're on the ground or a cruising altitude bonus so one of the biggest problem with in-flight Wi-Fi making FaceTime calls or video chat usually it's pretty slow with the air-to-ground system so we're going to try it out with satellite and see how we go Brian Tom calling me come in Brian Tom can you hear me hello hello it's like I'm on a Boeing 757 test plane with Honeywell's in-flight Wi-Fi and on average my download speed is around 30 megabits per second it slows down when more people jump on the network but I can still stream multiple videos at the same time this aircraft has an antenna on the roof that connects to the satellite network and Internet is delivered to you through a regular router and it works over water unlike air to ground systems that use cell towers for the signal this Wi-Fi connection is also used by pilots in the cockpit but not for watching Netflix so what this app allows pilots to do is to be able to get up to date weather information in the cockpit during the flight the connected radar helps the plane understand which turbulence is by talking to systems on other planes apps also let pilots use less fuel by showing an optimum flight path over 25 airlines are installing the honeywell jet wave hardware that powers this faster Wi-Fi including Lufthansa Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways in the US expect to see planes with this tack within two years airlines will ultimately control the system but even if you're not getting the maximum bandwidth it's still so much better than watching a buffering screen