Light Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60; Flight Crew Total 10500; Flight Crew Type 3000
Distraction; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Aircraft Equipment Problem Dissipated; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Aircraft; Procedure
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.
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.