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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 15 Apr 2010 07:27 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mike Buckley <Mike(a)hotmail.com> typed > >I live near enough Tollerton airport to see and hear regular pleasure >flights, no change from the usual. Too low to be affected? They're flying VFR (Visual Flight Rules), and in uncontrolled airspace. So, they're unaffected by "UK airspace being closed". It's their call. Personally, given that the ash is forecast to the surface, I'd have some concerns about air filters getting blocked or windscreens being damaged. But it's their call. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 15 Apr 2010 07:33 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "'Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> saying something like: >Whew that's a hell of a tale. What a line! >"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small >problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get >them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress" Afair, the pax were reasonably well behaved.
From: crn on 15 Apr 2010 07:44 ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > I flew in from Zurich last night, leaving three of my colleagues behind > to fly back this morning. They're now stuck in Zurich for at least > another day while I sit at home on the sofa with my feet up. Haha. Probably longer, all of the planes are in the wrong place to get started. Bristol and Cardiff are landing flights destined for Birmingham and northwards and scratching around for busses to take the passengers onward. Even if the volcano stops erupting and/or the upper winds change direction it is going to take a fair while to get the planes and crews positioned to restart flights. -- 03 GS500K2 76 Honda 400/4 project 68 Bantam D14/4 Sport (Classic) 06 Sukida SK50QT (Slanty eyed shopping trolley)
From: steve auvache on 15 Apr 2010 07:48 In article <hq6u7d$pq9$1(a)news.albasani.net>, crn(a)NOSPAM.netunix.com writes >ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >> >> I flew in from Zurich last night, leaving three of my colleagues behind >> to fly back this morning. They're now stuck in Zurich for at least >> another day while I sit at home on the sofa with my feet up. Haha. > >Probably longer, all of the planes are in the wrong place to get started. >Bristol and Cardiff are landing flights destined for Birmingham and >northwards and scratching around for busses to take the passengers onward. >Even if the volcano stops erupting and/or the upper winds change direction >it is going to take a fair while to get the planes and crews positioned >to restart flights. It gets worse. My BBC is reporting that the loan defaulting scum are predicting another volcano is just about to blow and may be even bigger. -- steve auvache VN750 Third gear has scope. SR250 The SpazzTrakka (Improved).
From: ogden on 15 Apr 2010 07:59
wrote: > ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > > > I flew in from Zurich last night, leaving three of my colleagues behind > > to fly back this morning. They're now stuck in Zurich for at least > > another day while I sit at home on the sofa with my feet up. Haha. > > Probably longer, all of the planes are in the wrong place to get started. > Bristol and Cardiff are landing flights destined for Birmingham and > northwards and scratching around for busses to take the passengers onward. > Even if the volcano stops erupting and/or the upper winds change direction > it is going to take a fair while to get the planes and crews positioned > to restart flights. Yeah, sounds like they're going to SBB/TGV/Eurostar it back tomorrow. All their own fault really, since there was no good reason for them not to fly back yesterday evening. Ho hum. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250 |