Total close down of UK airspace!

[ICEcoldair881]

Just about the start of rainy season

rain? more like hurricane season.......

[zorbon]

rain? more like hurricane season.......

Actually the Atlantic hurricane/depressions rate cycle every 20 years, in the 80s there were avg 15-20 depressions a year, in the 90s 10 a year, in the 00's 15-20, we're probably going into another low number year (last two years have been low).

That being said, I've lived here 80% of my life, I've been in about 10 storms, (Half of them when I lived in Palm Beach between 2002-2006) and for the most part, other than not having electric for a few days, they're non-events. Just pray a tree doesn't fall on anything, stock up on food & water, tie anything down that can fly  and you'll be fine.


Anyhoo, Hurricane season starts in June, with September being the peak part of the year.

[lunchbox]

yeah, hope for another quiet season, finally got settled after Ike hit almost 2 years ago lol

I hope this doesn't last 3 years, I'm planning on traveling to Spain for a cruise next March

[castelino009]

Norgefly , mate I told you restriction was till sunday, just heard it again on bbc, looking bad many more countries will be affected as clouds drift .

VJC

[Sami]

...not good at all: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271483349.png

[blumage]

Northern italy joined the bandwagon since yesterday, nearly 600 flights have been cancelled in Milan.
I was at a travelling agency on friday and it was a total mess!!!!!

[Tujue]

Turkey is preparing to close its air space. It is not allowed to fly above Zonguldak, Sinop and Samsun between FL200 and FL350. It is expected that the air space above Istanbul (Tekirdag Çorlu, Istanbul Atatürk and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen airports) will be closed after mid-night.

[ICEcoldair881]

wow delegates of the world can't even attend the Polish President/First Lady & parlaiment's funeral because of the stupid ash. If it was me, I would fly as far as I could then just descend below the ash and fly there the rest of the way. It would show that "Such-and-such's" President says that attending the funeral of a fallen President is more important than some stupid ash cloud.

[mideg]

Hey, that might lead to a chain reaction: a bunch of presidents fly to the funeral of the Polish president, one of them crashes due to the ash. Here comes the next funeral, whereto a bunch of presidents fly, one of them crashes, here comes...

All right, all right, I stop. :-P

[Maarten Otto]

Thank you Iceland for ruening my weekend. Had a flight booked with British Midland Baby (AMS/EMA) for a great Diesel Gala rail event in Loughborough. Instead I went for the Bratwurst und Warsteiner in Germany... although I still prefere real ale.

Yes I felt a bit sick about it... but I do understand it has been done for safety reasons... and I get my euro's back from BMI so no trouble with that either.

[Dave4468]

Thank you Iceland for ruening my weekend. Had a flight booked with British Midland Baby (AMS/EMA) for a great Diesel Gala rail event in Loughborough. Instead I went for the Bratwurst und Warsteiner in Germany... although I still prefere real ale.

Yes I felt a bit sick about it... but I do understand it has been done for safety reasons... and I get my euro's back from BMI so no trouble with that either.

Oh, so I'm not the only person on here who thinks in planes and trains! 

[ChrisMayhew]

Just about the start of rainy season
We'll see if luck is with you sir.

If you go anywhere inland make sure you bring allergy meds, it's pollen season now :|

Ok back on topic now, Volcano pooping on Europe

lol, Thankfully I don't suffer from any allergies so I shouldn't need any meds

And as for the rainy season I get used to that from living in the UK

According to the news and Manchester airport site the UK will be slowly opening the airports at certain times tomorrow so it's looking good so far

[DenisG]

In Germany, there are already a number of a/c in the air, at least reallocating. Lufthansa announced, they would start long-haul flights tonight as well. However, there were those reports about a NATO-F-16 facing trouble in the clouds somewhere over Europe and reports from Suisse air measurements that also turned out negative.
Denis

[Diagoras]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlGi2-A8gEw

A video in Iceland I compiled together from some clips I filmed. My boss flew up there in a Cessna 170 and took me with him - we flew as close as about 3nm to the eruption. Bit of a shockwave near the end...

[Maarten Otto]

Although 15 minutes delayed... real time flights above The Netherlands for EHAM/AMS  http://casper.frontier.nl/eham/

[d2031k]

Things aren't looking too good again with the ash cloud 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/volcano/ashconcentration/