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    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    A very telling quote from one of the airline forums:

    No one seems to know, but if you conjecture that 200,000 people transit LHR everyday, 40% of those are transfer that means for every day just at LHR 60,000 people are at their destination point waiting to come home, many of these are in the US and other continents although a number in Europe will be trickling back over / under land and over sea. Multiply that for each day say up to a week (average trip?), add in the other airports, factor in that this happened at the end of the Easter holidays when flights would have been very busy with people returning home, and the number of British people alone could be in the hundreds of thousands after a week of this. Add France, Germany the Netherlands etc.

    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by Mondy

    http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/eyjafjallajokull-and-katla-restless-neighbours/

    Some volcanoes may be so closely spaced that they are coupled; activity in one system has a profound influence on the other. One such pair includes the Katla and Eyjafjallajökull volcanoes, situated under ice caps in the propagating rift zone in southern Iceland. Katla hosts a caldera and is one of Iceland’s most active volcanoes, with 20 eruptions in the last 1100 years

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.V32B..03S

    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by Mondy

    Any updates on Katla? All this activity so close to it must be stirring her? :)

    Just as I thought, Germany takes the lead.

    VALIDITY: 2010/04/17 1200 UNTIL 2010/04/19 1000 ESTIMATED

    .

    IN RESPECT TO THE CURRENT SIGMET FOR GERMAN AIRSPACE, DFS WILL

    ISSUE IFR CLEARANCES FOR FLIGHTS AT OR ABOVE FL200.

    PILOTS ARE REMINDED THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CURRENT SIGMET THE

    AIRSPACE BELOW FL200 IS CONSIDERED TO BE CONTAMINATED WITH

    VOLCANICASH.

    .

    IFR FLIGHTS HAVE TO BE CONDUCTED ON PILOTS OWN RISK, SHOULD THE

    NECESSITY OCCUR TO DESCEND BELOW FL200 DUE TO ACFT MALFUNCTIONS.

    .

    DFS GERMANY

    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted · Edited by Mondy

    No they are reposistioning flights so there are no passengers in them and there are actually 5 aircraft now. Ryanair did that yesterday

    Yep, I know that :)

    They are trialing/testing using VFR procedures.

    Edit: There are about four or five 747's now at Frankfurt and one A340 - talk about getting ready! As Sir Alex would say" typical German's!"

    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    Air traffic movement in Germany.

    A 747 and Airbus A340 both arrived at Frankfurt following low-level hops from Munich. I suspect this is one avenue the Germans may try with others following suit if it's successful, ie, fly at very low levels over vast areas, then ascend once clear of the plume - which looks like being clear SW Europe.

    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    The research team using the Natural Environment Research Council's Dornier 228 aircraft have flown a highly successful mission today.

    The Dornier took off from Cranfield airfield at around 3.45pm this afternoon. It flew to the North East of London where it located and tracked the edge of the plume over East Anglia and the North Sea, and towards the dutch coastline.

    The measurements and other data will now be analysed and the results will be used by the Met Office to help with forecasting models and to inform the aviation industry.

    http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/notes/

    Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

    in Space, Science & nature

    Posted

    I think we may have been had. Was this footage an entire replay of Tuesday?

    The only one thing I (we) have is the vodafone website said today's date, and at 21:00 it was spewing out?

    I dunno

    Just mentioned on CNN reports of it becoming significantly worse in the last 2 hours or so

    Am glad you said that - thought I was loosing it LOL

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