Further Information

RULES OF OPERATIONS

The German Aviation Authority (LBA, Federal Office for Aviation) and the National Metrology Institute, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), granted official approval for the EPCARD v.3.34 in December 2003.

Using EPCARD online is free of charge, but it is not appropriate for routine calculations.

In order to fulfil the European national legislations concerning the cosmic ray exposure of aircrew the full version of the EPCARD program is required.

If you are interested in the commercial use of EPCARD by airlines and related aviation industries, please send your request to the GSF-National Research Center to obtain the conditions of a licence agreement.

Notification of additional doses from serious solar particle events (SPE): GSF’s partner institute IRSN calculates the additional doses from serious SPE

Further information [print version, pdf file, 316 KB]...

Press release...

Determining radiation exposure of airline staff...

Notification of Ground Level Event (January 20, 2005): EURADOS Aircraft Crew Dosimetry Group assessment of doses [print version, pdf file, 63 KB]