Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
How did this issue only manifest itself after 37 years in service? Sun radiation isnt a new phenomenon.
scratchee@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I think I read that the issue is relatively new thanks to a software update (speculation in another thread, so questionable veracity). So perhaps a change that wasn’t flawed by itself but by bad luck combined with this radiation sensitivity to make the issue significant.
But also solar flares are kind of rare, especially on the stronger end, so easy to imagine reliant on them sitting idle for years.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Solar flares come and go in ~11 year cycles. So strong solar flares are common now (we’ve had a few this past year) but go dormant for a while at a time.