Coronal Mass Ejection - implications for Modern Airliners?
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Coronal Mass Ejection - implications for Modern Airliners?
I'm just in the throes of a frozen ATPL and, with a major Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) due sometime in the next few years, I wondered what the implications might be for aircraft, their crews and passengers? Given the level of computerised technology on modern airliners, and the damage that a CME can do - is it possible that a major event could bring down an airliner?
This may be a really easy one to answer - if the aircraft is shielded from such phenomenon, but if not... what are the options? I would imagine that deploying the RAT would not help - as the electrics would be fried...?
Anybody out there know if CME's are taken into account during the design and operation of airliners (or, in fact, military aircraft!)
Thanks!!
TSR22 (tried to get TSR2 - no joy..)
