If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they’re going to patch it, I’d like to read about it :)
Airbus said it discovered the issue after an investigation into an incident in which a plane flying between the US and Mexico suddenly lost altitude in October.
The JetBlue Airways flight made an emergency landing in Florida after at least 15 people were injured.
The problem identified with A320 aircrafts relates to a piece of computing software which calculates a plane’s elevation.
Airbus discovered that, at high altitudes, its data could be corrupted by intense radiation released periodically by the Sun.
The A320 family are what is known as “fly by wire” planes. This means there is no direct mechanical link between the controls in the cockpit and the parts of the aircraft that actually govern flight, with the pilot’s actions processed by a computer.
Shouldnt there be alarms when the auto pilot detected an unexpected rapid elevation change?
It’s not elevation, the height of a plane is called altitude. The change was in the elevator which is a control surface on the plane. There is so many people with so little understanding weighing in on this thread it’s hilarious
Looks like the same word in a slightly different package. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah tiger woods is definitely hitting that shot with his golf bat wrong. Literally how you sound
You mean the equipment that resembles a hockey stick? Continue being pedantic. It makes you look very smart.