View Full Version : Avoiding Volcanic Ash
Brian Whatcott
May 9th 10, 03:41 PM
Flying back from Amsterdam to DFW on friday with KLM, I saw that we 
headed north for Denmark, then turning west, passed to the north of 
Iceland. Then crossing the southern half of Greenland and into Canada, 
we proceeded across the Hudson Bay, and passed West of ALL the Great 
Lakes, and then on south.
Now that's what I call avoiding a problem - we had enhanced separation 
too apparently!
Brian W
On May 9, 9:41*am, brian whatcott > wrote:
> Flying back from Amsterdam to DFW on friday with KLM, I saw that we
> headed north for Denmark, then turning west, passed to the north of
> Iceland. Then crossing the southern half of Greenland and into Canada,
> we proceeded across the Hudson Bay, and passed West of ALL the Great
> Lakes, and then on south.
>
> Now that's what I call avoiding a problem - we had enhanced separation
> too apparently!
>
> Brian W
Wow, microsoft already added volcano smoke to
the graphics package?
Ha, KIDDING!  Glad you made it back ok. That's
quite some route you took.
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Mark
VOR-DME[_3_]
May 10th 10, 09:43 AM
No joking matter, to be sure, but it will be interesting to see where 
this goes now that European authorities have seen the high human and 
economic costs of excessive prevention. They created a near humanitarian 
crisis practicing the belief that the main "OFF" switch was the magical 
answer to avoid getting blamed for anything, and they ended up getting 
blamed anyway for their poor decision-making. How terribly unfair. 
In article >, 
 says...
>Did you ever see any ash?
>
>This is becoming a big joke over here.
>
>Nobody (outside Iceland) has actually seen any of the stuff.
Brian Whatcott
May 10th 10, 06:56 PM
Peter wrote:
> brian whatcott > wrote
> 
>> Flying back from Amsterdam to DFW on friday with KLM, I saw that we 
>> headed north for Denmark, then turning west, passed to the north of 
>> Iceland. Then crossing the southern half of Greenland and into Canada, 
>> we proceeded across the Hudson Bay, and passed West of ALL the Great 
>> Lakes, and then on south.
>>
>> Now that's what I call avoiding a problem - we had enhanced separation 
>> too apparently!
>>
>> Brian W
> 
> Did you ever see any ash?
> 
> This is becoming a big joke over here.
> 
> Nobody (outside Iceland) has actually seen any of the stuff.
My wife showed me a moving depiction on an internet Atlantic map 
yesterday,  so I imagine somebody can track the stuff.
Brian W
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