Re:Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
by RealityVoid on Friday November 28, 2025 @03:42PM
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In my humble opinion, whenever someone dropped the idea... "Maybe it's solar radiation" it never was solar radiation. There was a subtle bug in the system or something. It's just such a cop-out to attribute it to, solar radiation, it's our profession's variant of magic.
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Re:Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
by pixl97 on Friday November 28, 2025 @09:56PM
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I can't find any further information on this intel testing like what altitude they perform the tests at.
AMD has perform testing at data centers of different altitudes and there is some statistical significance in SRAM error rates. And that is typically only around 5000-6000 ft msl.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2503210.2503257
Planes are much higher than that in operation so get larger amounts of unfiltered solar flux.
This may be one of the causes of higher cancer rates in pilots, but eliminating other environmental causes may be difficult
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/aviation/prevention/aircrew-cancer...