Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:51 am
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ENR 1-1-5-4 wrote:The intensity may be sufficient to detonate electrically initiated explosive devices carried or fitted in aircraft.
I would have thought that any CAPs and similar relies on an EED for initial activation. If they use e.g. the NSI, there are specs regarding 'no fire conditions', which if memory serves right, for the NSI is 1A, 1m, 1W, e.g. the initiator must be able to 'ignore' a 1A current for 1 minute at 1W of power without activating.
Someone brainier than me can work out the transmitted RF required to induce a current >1A for more than 1m in the cabling connected to a typical GA, given the presumed shielding of an airframe (or not in the case of composite stuff and microlights)... for an aircraft which should, unless they are landing or taking off, be at least 500 feet away from the source.
On my XCQ, I flew from Cambridge to Wellesbourne. My planned flight was very close to the Cambridge one. When I asked at Cambridge whether they were aware of any hours of operation, they didn't seem to know anything about it at all - when they then asked an instructor he said they'd never cared much about it...
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