In-flight lightning damage assessment system ILDAS, tests on-ground and in-flight

The In-flight lightning damage assessment system ILDAS resulted from a EU-FP6 cooperation of 12 partners. It has successfully been completed with demonstration of operation in 2009. Airbus decided to develop the system further with EADS and NLR. The paper describes the magnetic field sensor selected for this phase 2, and briefly discusses the test on-ground and tests in flights through thunderstorms carried out up to now.