Lightning
While working the North Sea and being around when one Super Puma ditched and others limped home after lightning strikes with various degrees of damage, it interested me to see a young lady come along to try to fathom what caused the strikes. Whether it was cloud types, temp, inversion, etc. Has anyone seen the results of this study. One of the things I suggested was that the white strobe lights attract lightning due to the high voltage discharge when the light flashes. Being an ex electrician this seemed obvious to me but they had not thought of it. I used to turn off the white stobe lights when flying near(Ops Manual distance) CB's that were active. Don't know if it helped but never got struck by lightning. Have not seen any other threads discussing the cause only the result. Hopefully someone will have information