B757 first officer (first officer) reports hitting a flock of geese during climbout. The engines app...

Narrative:

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 (first officer) 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!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: 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.

Narrative: 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!

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1247807
Time
Date	201503
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Electronic Flt Bag (EFB)
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal

B757 first officer (first officer) reports hitting a flock of geese during climbout. The engines appear unscathed; but a return to the departure airport occured. The captain and the first officer both attempt to access their ipad's for overweight landing information to find both apps frozen.