Comment on Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 19 hours agoNone of the articles specify… my guess is yes. Because of how serious the issue is, and relatively easy it is to fix. Its only the remote areas that will take longer, and that’s a small number of planes in the grand scheme.
Solar flares are predictable, with a decent lead time, so they could ground them during solar activity. But when the cost is potentially so high, an abundance of caution does make sense.
Would be good if the articles had linked to an official statement.
Yeah, they already did that like they always do, when the solar storm was at its peak weeks ago.
The normal mitigation for those events was not enough this time apparently. A plane was affected and had an in flight issue after the solar maximum was done and there shouldn’t be issues from it.
That’s why this is such a big deal. This hasn’t happened before on this scale. They’re making sure that every plane that might have been affected by storm damage has known good software loaded now. That’s why its not every A320, just the ones they’ve determined were potentially vulnerable. Most likely those actually flying around during the maximum time, with the Earth’s magnetic field 30k feet less thick above them.
It was a big solar storm last month, so makes sense. Thanks for the additional background though, I’ll do some more reading :)
qupada@fedia.io 13 hours ago
You have to dig reasonably hard, but a few articles have linked to the original EASA directive, which is allowing up to three non-passenger flights to relocate the plane to a service location.
I'm not sure if that rule would just apply in Europe where they have authority.