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Icelandic volcanic ash halts European air traffic.

I believe the UK is about to be the next to lose air traffic due to the ash problem.
Not good.

Edit:Just confirmed on our World News Service.
 
This means in the next few days, we'll be getting some excellent red sunsets because of this.

Horrible what it does to jet engines.


Bill
 
I'm supposed to fly from Toronto to Vienna this afternoon. Already curious which route our dispatch is planning. Most probably way down to the south via France. Guess we will need much more fuel (and time) today....
 
Sigh, that means it's going to be a random routing, not only more fuel and time but also more work, less sleep and hence less time for FSX in the evening....
 
Lionheart said:
This means in the next few days, we'll be getting some excellent red sunsets because of this.

Horrible what it does to jet engines.


Bill
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I think if it was going to stretch as far as the American South West then it would probably be curtains for Europe!! :icon_lol:

When Mount St Helens erupted in the 80's (with much, MUCH greater ferocity), it wasn't visible to us in the far western edges of Europe. It might have had an effect on the weather, globally speaking but if we hadn't seen it on the news and had relatives in the area we would never have noticed. I'd be surprised if we see anything from Iceland in the skies above London! Scotland maybe.

Besides, it will be drifting south and east not west.
 
I've flown this morning.....but in the far south west of England we dont seem to be affected by it all. But you never know what will happen as the wind seems to be blowing from the North West!!

Martin
 
When I was stationed in Iceland, they told us that if we were there for 2yrs, we stood a good chance of seeing some type of volcanic activity....
 
T6flyer said:
I've flown this morning.....but in the far south west of England we dont seem to be affected by it all. But you never know what will happen as the wind seems to be blowing from the North West!!

Martin
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Sorry - I completely misread your post. I started going on about Air SouthWest :redf:
 
Just received an update from my company. Oceanic exit point will be over spain...Guess we will not be on time in Vienna...
 
Dutch airspace will be closed at 19:00 PM local time, Norway and the UK already closed, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden will close their airspace later today.

I doubt the cloud will be visible from the ground; apparently the particles are all up in the upper layers but can contain rock and glass and therefore are dangerous to fly through.

Edit: Here you can see the location of the volcano and the cloud slowly drifting to the south east: http://www.sat24.nl/homepage.aspx?page=ir
 
I didnt mean drastic cloud layers in Arizona. We can see it usually in the sunsets is all. Cant really see it during the day, but right at sunset, the sky is much redder. Upper atmosphere with the dust in it turns red from the sun. Pretty spectacular.

Anytime a volcano goes off, after a few days is when we start seeing the effects. Takes a while for the dust to get here.

<--- dust capital of the world... or at least we used to be.. temporarily taken away from us..
 
Lionheart said:
I didnt mean drastic cloud layers in Arizona. We can see it usually in the sunsets is all. Cant really see it during the day, but right at sunset, the sky is much redder. Upper atmosphere with the dust in it turns red from the sun. Pretty spectacular.

Anytime a volcano goes off, after a few days is when we start seeing the effects. Takes a while for the dust to get here.

<--- dust capital of the world... or at least we used to be.. temporarily taken away from us..
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I know what you mean - the best sunsets I've ever seen have been in Arizona.

Here's one I saw a few years ago -

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now all of you fire up fsx and play the volcano mission with the dc-3 in order to practice your single engine landings.
 
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