EasyJet claims it has a miraculous new volcanic ash detector

On 04/06/10 20:03, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting wrote:
On Jun 4, 11:38 am, wrote:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/06/04/...t.detector/ind...

Can we make it a crime to twist words so as to create a clever
acronym?

The new system -- dubbed the Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and
Detector (AVOID) - was developed by Dr Fred Prata of the Norwegian
Institute for Air Research and has the backing of the British Civil
Aviation Authority (CAA).

People get paid money to come up with Characters Rearranged Avoiding
Pertinence like that.

There's that and that the technology is about 40 years old at least.

Back in the early 70's I was paying my tutition by (among other things)
bolting sensors on airplanes to measure tiny particulates at altitude.


There was an interview with one of the scientists on TV in the UK today.

It seems the technology has existed for years, it just wasn't cost
effective to fit before this year.



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William Black

These are the gilded popinjays and murderous assassins of Perfidious
Albion and they are about their Queen's business. Any man who impedes
their passage does so at his own peril.

William Black wrote:
On 04/06/10 20:03, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting wrote:
On Jun 4, 11:38 am, wrote:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/06/04/...t.detector/ind...

Can we make it a crime to twist words so as to create a clever
acronym?

The new system -- dubbed the Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and
Detector (AVOID) - was developed by Dr Fred Prata of the Norwegian
Institute for Air Research and has the backing of the British Civil
Aviation Authority (CAA).

People get paid money to come up with Characters Rearranged Avoiding
Pertinence like that.

There's that and that the technology is about 40 years old at least.

Back in the early 70's I was paying my tutition by (among other things)
bolting sensors on airplanes to measure tiny particulates at altitude.


There was an interview with one of the scientists on TV in the UK today.

It seems the technology has existed for years, it just wasn't cost
effective to fit before this year.

Or more to the point, there was no incentive to have such a system before
this year as a volcano disrupting air traffic is historically a rare event.


--
Jim Pennino

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