Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 225; Flight Crew Total 31000; Flight Crew Type 7000
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft
At cruise altitude; attempted to access data on my iPad. Entire home page was illuminated at about one third normal illumination with dim blue updating circles next to each field. The transfer box said 73 transfers were waiting. Just 2 hours earlier I was using my I-pad and everything was normal. No transfers; no updates; and battery was at 80%. I was not in the settings field; so no changes were made here. Two hours later I had no access to the data. None. I turned the iPad off and then on and also did a hard reset. I still had no access; what happens when this happens to both pilots?
Air Carrier Captain experiences an iPad based EFB failure in cruise and wonders what happens when both iPad's fail.