From: Surreyman on
No air flights not nowhere in or out of the UK today.
Total chaos of course.
I live near Heathrow and at 5.30 p.m. the skies are sunny, clear and
blue.
Where's that volcanic fall-out then?
Did someone hit the panic button too soon, too hard?
From: PeterL on
On Apr 15, 9:44 am, Surreyman <alandavid.spen...(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> No air flights not nowhere in or out of the UK today.
> Total chaos of course.
> I live near Heathrow and at 5.30 p.m. the skies are sunny, clear and
> blue.
> Where's that volcanic fall-out then?
> Did someone hit the panic button too soon, too hard?

In order to fly to the airport or out of it, planes have to fly
through air space that's been polluted by volcanic ash, which can
damage the engines.

You must be the frog that lives in a well and can only see your own
sky.
From: erilar on

Is that going to affect travel to Germany in the immediate future?

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: Mxsmanic on
Surreyman writes:

> I live near Heathrow and at 5.30 p.m. the skies are sunny, clear and
> blue.

Ash can be hard to spot from the outside of the plume.

> Did someone hit the panic button too soon, too hard?

Try flying through a cloud of volcanic ash, and see what you think.
From: William Black on
erilar wrote:
> Is that going to affect travel to Germany in the immediate future?
>

They're not sure, but they expect that all civil flying over all of
Northern Europe will be affected for at least the next two days

Currently all planes have been grounded in the UK, Ireland, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, France is
about to ground everything.

Details at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8623534.stm
..
--
William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
single handed with a quarterstaff.