Originally Posted by
freshgasflow
I am not an aviation professional so grateful if someone could explain things to me:
If the theory of lightning strike are true, how does it lead to electrical failure ? I thought that an aircraft aluminium or metal mesh composite effectively created an Faraday cage ?
If there were local electrical transients, would this only trip circuit breakers. which presumably could be reset quickly ?
Thank you.
Not circuit breakers, but FMC failures, generator failures,spurious warnings etc. etc.
But 99% are resettable. Okay 98%
