B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal
Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; Flight Crew Landed As Precaution
Environment - Non Weather Related
On climb; as we came out of a cloud; encountered a flock of Geese. We hit the flock and felt the hits. Engine parameters remained normal. Returned back to departure airport and executed an overweight landing. During the event; the QRH overweight landing checklist had us refer to the performance section of the manuals. Both myself First Officer (FO) and Captain (CA) tried to refer to the section and found that Both of our apps had stalled. In order for me to get to the reference page; I had to close the app and relaunch it. Totally unacceptable in this situation.  I don't use my company iPad for any personal use and only have my FOM and the Jepps app open while flying. All other apps remain closed as part of my preflight. I open the app before departure to ensure that I have the needed performance and reference items available if needed. I have had this app freeze up in the past and so I was hoping the most recent update would solve this problem. However; this event proved that it did not. This app is not helpful in a critical situation. Someone needs to fix it!
B757 First Officer (FO) reports hitting a flock of geese during climbout. The engines appear unscathed; but a return to the departure airport occured. The Captain and the FO both attempt to access their iPad's for overweight landing information to find both apps frozen.