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[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

And I’m sure any affected areas and satellites will be shutdown for that period to reduce any operational risk.

So less planes falling and more planes delayed.

Same for network communications as items are routed around certain areas or via some methods like fiber vs others.

[-] CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Planes wouldn't just fall out of the sky anyways lmao. Even if planes lost communications completely they are still operational flying machines. It would just be very difficult to coordinate planes landing at that point. I don't know about the protocols, but I'm sure there exist failsafes to coordinate air traffic in the event of radio communication loss.

[-] 520@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would be a bit more serious than a loss of communication. The electronics in the plane would be completely melted. Including the ones responsible for controlling the plane.

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 15 points 1 year ago

Airplanes are designed to withstand the current, voltage, and EMP effects of lightning strikes, whose local fields are several orders of magnitude more powerful than anything the sun has ever thrown at the earth.

Any solar-originated pulse strong enough to "completely melt" any electronics in the plane will kill everyone and everything on the daylight-side of the planet, and probably strip the entire atmosphere.

[-] CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Why and how would the electronics in an airplane be melted? Airplanes are naturally a Faraday cage, and all the components are going to be EMF shielded anyways.

The only thing an airplane would need to worry about with a solar storm is the increase in radiation exposure, and even then it's only relevant for the Flight crew who have limits on how much radiation they can be exposed to per OSHA.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That's not how earlths magnetic field induced current works...

The conductors on a plane are short, the induced current is tiny. Significant currents are produced in long conductors (transmission wires). Severely damaging the infrastructure they connect to, and potentially themselves.

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

True and I didn’t mean to imply it. Went for the hyperbole you tend to see and did a poor job with it after all.

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