Patent claim: The airplane of any of claims 814 wherein the gateway is operable to provide a function comprising device authentication bandwidth monitoring device and network control content analysis enforcement of regulatory policies enforcement of and configurability to airline policies warningalerting operational status monitoring failure handling management of connected devices application selection intermediate formatting compositing of application information application authentication filtering of devices andor applications which can or cannot communicate with the onboard network interfacing and data translation between disparate system components relaying of aircraft information data and pilot interaction control data enforcement of and compliance with flight deck human interface standards and guidelines enforcement of airplane manufacturer policies and acceptability as per an established applicationgovernance process integration of applications hosted on operationally approved PEDs with certified or operationally approved applications hosted within the onboard network preparation of information from the PED for integration andor layering within functional layered applications on a certified display application or a combination thereof wherein for a function of video display the PED preferably utilizes the flightdeckinstalled multifunction display as a passive display terminal without any requirement for display or graphics generationoutput hardware on the PED or any native forms of input or interactivity on the PED and wherein the function of video display provides a service to directly connect an abstract application to the multifunction displays for display and interaction on the flightdeck regardless of specifics services capabilities or operating system of the PED andor wherein applications displayed on flightdeckinstalled multifunction display preferably comprise a window on the flightdeckinstalled multifunction display a window managed across multiple flightdeckinstalled multifunction displays multiple application on multiple devices a diversity of pilot control interfaces including an ability to operate without the pilot control interfaces an abstract nature of hosted applications including a nonvideo application a compositing of certified and operationally approved information a multiple user and sharedexclusive application environment application devicebased status information sent to the gateway including additional application categories or a combination thereof.

Related passage: If there is a turbulent condition then that condition may be indicated to the flight crew at 106.This may include providing an indication on the handheld device 40.For example an indication may be displayed on the display 44 of the handheld device 40.By way of additional example an audible indication may be emitted from the handheld device 40.Further if the determination of the turbulent condition is made by the handheld device 40 and not the controller 30 providing an indication of the turbulent condition may include transmitting a turbulence signal from the handheld device 40 to the aircraft 10.The controller 30 may then provide an indication on a display 22 on the flight deck 18 of the aircraft 10 in response to the turbulence signal which was transmitted from the handheld device 40.Alternatively the flight deck 18 may emit an audible indication in response to the turbulence signal provided by the handheld device 40.