Comment on Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch
CameronDev@programming.dev 18 hours agoSolar 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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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.
CameronDev@programming.dev 17 hours ago
It was a big solar storm last month, so makes sense. Thanks for the additional background though, I’ll do some more reading :)