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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Aeroplanes do not fly through ash clouds all the time. They are quite rare, especially in this part of the world. The cloud does not have to be very dense for glass deposits to form on jet turbine blades. This is why the aircraft were grounded in the first place.
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No one is asking them to pay exorbitant compensation to anyone, only what is reasonable.
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FLyboy ,the ash clouds from any volcano stay in the upper atmosphere for years circling the globe for decades ,heavier particles sink to the ground within a few days ,so if your trying to tell me that planes do not encounter ash from volcanoes on a regular basis then that is rubbish
As i said only the concentrated ash is capable of scouring the screen or shutting down an engine .Most pilots on this forum
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...-merged-7.html cannot understand the thinking behind closing the air space in the way it has been done ,even they say that there has been some major ass covering simply because there is no data available from the met office as to how dense this cloud is ,they can't understand why they weren't allowed to fly lower
a typical quote from a pilot
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It's all a storm in a teacup. It has now gotten so far out of hand that they won't admit they were wrong.
Still it has been amazing flying for us over the last few days!!
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and another
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It is a stupid lawyer-ish over-reaction. I am sure there is zero risk to any aviation anywhere in Europe - so long as the plume coming out of the volcano is avoided (which is easy; everybody knows where that is).
The amazing thing is that the airspace owners have been able to shut everything down without having evidence of the risk to aircraft and without even making an apparent effort to find out. I reckon they are going to get sued big-time by the airlines. I hope they do get sued.
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and another disillusioned pilot
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If you are able to fly in UK you are lucky. I have just spoken to the duty officer at the Danish CAA and they said the only thing flying in Denmark are the birds.
I flew round the cloud VFR on Thursday fron BIRK and was in severe clear all the way to Danish boundary but was forced to divert.
Been sitting under clear blue skies ever since. Can see my destination! Totally unjustifiable overreaction. Problem is they can't backtrack now without being seen to be alarmist. Bird Flu, Salmonella, Mad Cow disease, WMD all come to mind.
Director of safety at Danish CAA not working today as it is Sunday.
Who are these guys?
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like i said a gross overreaction