Avoiding Volcanic Ash

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.

---
Mark

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.



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Did you ever see any ash?

This is becoming a big joke over here.

Nobody (outside Iceland) has actually seen any of the stuff.

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