Volcanic ash closing Scottish airports

[Lefty Two Drams]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

[Fume troll]

And Norway. Weird eh?

And guess who's in Norway hoping to fly to Scotland tonight....

Cheers,

FT.

[Lefty Two Drams]

Doh. Good luck with that.

Road Trip? Norway-Sweden-Denmark-Zeebrugge-Rosyth?

I'm happy enough actually, was due to go to a crappy all-day meeting tomorrow. I kinda hope the airport doesn't open at all today...

[cerbfan]

From what I've heard they reckon that this could close the airports for 2 days. I guess thats my meeting in London cancelled then.

[karona]

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

Norwegian satellite animation, takes a minute or two to load.
The massive grey patch is volcanic ash, there'll be nothing flying anytime soon.

[Fume troll]

Paranoia I reckon. I watched a program about British Airways Flight 9, and once they glided out of the ash cloud having lost all the engines, they were able to restart all four of them. Although one stopped again a bit later on. And the windscreen was sandblasted to a nice privacy glass finish. Anyway, it was fine.

[Lefty Two Drams]

karona said:

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

Norwegian satellite animation, takes a minute or two to load.
The massive grey patch is volcanic ash, there'll be nothing flying anytime soon.

Great link, TYVM!

[DaGuv]

Newcastle is closed, I landed there last night coming back from Cyprus and also flew out this time last week....well lucky!

[dpbird90]

Bloody typical, I'm meant to be going back to Scotland today.

[NoelWatson]

Fume troll said:

Paranoia I reckon. I watched a program about British Airways Flight 9, and once they glided out of the ash cloud having lost all the engines, they were able to restart all four of them. Although one stopped again a bit later on. And the windscreen was sandblasted to a nice privacy glass finish. Anyway, it was fine.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress."

[andy_s]

Most flights out of gatwick cancelled.

[mrmr96]

Lefty Two Drams said:

karona said:

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

Norwegian satellite animation, takes a minute or two to load.
The massive grey patch is volcanic ash, there'll be nothing flying anytime soon.

Great link, TYVM!

I have a problem on my machine and that page won't load. What does the cloud look like? (i.e. width/lenght?)

[Lefty Two Drams]

mrmr96 said:

Lefty Two Drams said:

karona said:

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

Norwegian satellite animation, takes a minute or two to load.
The massive grey patch is volcanic ash, there'll be nothing flying anytime soon.

Great link, TYVM!

I have a problem on my machine and that page won't load. What does the cloud look like? (i.e. width/lenght?)

fkin' huge.

[funkyrobot]

MMGW? Eh? I bet it is you know.

Volcano tax anyone?

I hope Mr Volcano is proud of his carbon footprint.

[mrmr96]

Lefty Two Drams said:

mrmr96 said:

Lefty Two Drams said:

karona said:

http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

Norwegian satellite animation, takes a minute or two to load.
The massive grey patch is volcanic ash, there'll be nothing flying anytime soon.

Great link, TYVM!

I have a problem on my machine and that page won't load. What does the cloud look like? (i.e. width/lenght?)

fkin' huge.

I work in southampton, will the sky turn black today?

[Lefty Two Drams]

Nah I doubt it'll even be visible from the ground. I think it's at high althitude, the problem is that it fks with RADAR and I assume the dust can cause problems if ingested by turbines.

[S3_Graham]

funkyrobot said:

MMGW? Eh? I bet it is you know.

Volcano tax anyone?

I hope Mr Volcano is proud of his carbon footprint.

first thing i thought about too... was a program on Nat Geo last night. They were saying there is an underground volcano in california that pumps out 1000 tonnes of carbon per day!!

It would appear the ash cloud in getting down south now. We just cancelled 2 flights out of Farnborough! UK airspce is being predicited to be closed by lunchtime.

[speedmachine]

So its not the black smoke cloud from Lost then?

I'll get my coat!

[F i F]

For safety reasons and on the direction from Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) a decision has been made to cancel a number of flights and close all London airports. As a result ALL airlines will be impacted and we will therefore not be able to operate services after 11.30am from London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London City.

[shouldbworking]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Fligh...

worth a read if you fancy finding out why the airports have to close