From: d4g4h4 on
JohnT <johntspamnot(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1jh46xv.1jrjr6mbtcqkgN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk...
> > Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) writes:
> >>
> >> > A lot of things don't absolutely have to be transported at all. Indeed,
> >> > none of us absolutely have to travel at all. None of us absolutely have
> >> > to post to usenet groups either.
> >>
> >> Agreed.
> >
> > Well, that was easy then. :)
>
> I am going to notify "The Guinness Book of Records" that Mixi has agreed
> with you about something!

More important, notify the emergency services. I need oxygen, or
something nice...

--
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www.davidhorne.net (email address on website)
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world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Mike on
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:21:20 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <see(a)sig.nature>
wrote:

>Surely volcanic
>eruptions with similar ash clouds in the Pacific rim countries are much
>more frequent than in Europe, but people there just cope somehow. And
>actually they do have incidents with aircraft.

they say the eruption through the ice cap is an issue, beyond that I
do not know.
--
Mike
"if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk,
he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down"
Warren Buffett
From: Mxsmanic on
Martin writes:

> KLM is only a logo. KLM is 100% owned by Air France.

So?
From: Mike on
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:36:40 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>It's pretty startling looking up at the cloudless skies in Manchester
>and not seeing a single vapour trail...

and beautifully quiet in my back garden.
--
Mike
"if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk,
he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down"
Warren Buffett
From: Mxsmanic on
Hatunen writes:

> When I said pretty much the same thing you took me to task about
> how even a little bit of ash would endanger the engines.

The threshold of safety is extremely low. In general, flying through the ash
plume of any volcano is dangerous. Plumes are different from residual ash
evenly distributed around the planet.