Ashes to ashes...

On Apr 15, 6:23*pm, Andreas Maurer wrote:
ladies and gents,

a question came to my mind:
Are gliders (and towplanes) also affected by the UK airspace closures
due to the volcanic ashes?

Cheers
Andreas

I didn't hear anybody complaining when Mt St. Helens went ballistics
years ago!
I was working out of Lumby BC Canada with a Bell 214-B1 at the time.
We were grounded because of all of the ash in the air. Very
detrimental to a turbo-shaft engine and those big rotor blades (all
engine of course and props/rotor blades) - compressor/turbine
erosion. It took several compressor washes to clear the turbine/bleed
band even after it was all clear to fly. You ever had a heavy lift
helicopter swap ends on you because of a compressor stall? I have.
The trains that came through Lumby were loaded with the ash and I
still have a baby food jar with some.
The BBC is reporting that this will halt "GLOBAL WARMING" for a while.
"GLOBAL WARMING" my dying *ss!!!!!
Europe, quit your bitching and grow up. It's a planet and you can't
control it and neither can Al "the global warming, Nobel prize winning
liar" Gore! And, oh by the way, it's not Icelands fault.

Give me another rum and I'll tell you what I really think.

With great regards,
Jim

Enough whining, lets see opportunities taken. How about this one:
A Stemme pilot posted a video of thermaling over the runways at
Frankfurt, not normally possible.
Jim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17clkkKyIwc