Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

Over Clocker · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:40

HMS Ocean, Albion and Ark Royal are pretty huge though. Not only in there the flight deck, but there are the aircraft hangars also. I've been on both Illustrious and Ocean, and if you remove the aircraft, there is plenty of space on them!

rypt · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:41

So about a day then if we were to use ports that are closer to the tips of the country, and yes I would assume they will use the air craft holds and will set up a mini tent city in there

Over Clocker · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:41

clv101 said:
Those million people and more would be employed in the UK if we brits stopping spending our money in Spain, France, US etc and instead spend it at home. The UK economy would grow.

::FACEPALM::

meghatronic · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:41

Over Clocker said:
HMS Ocean, Albion and Ark Royal are pretty huge though. Not only in there the flight deck, but there are the aircraft hangars also. I've been on both Illustrious and Ocean, and if you remove the aircraft, there is plenty of space on them!

Exactly. Just got loads of portable loos in the hangers. It's only <1 day journey anyway. Jeeez.

rypt said:
So about a day then if we were to use ports that are closer to the tips of the country, and yes I would assume they will use the air craft holds and will set up a mini tent city in there

I chose Santander as that's where the BBC article said some troops were.

'Wes · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:42

Look's like Katla's going to blow.

Scuzi · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:43

Over Clocker said:
::FACEPALM::

It's simple though, with his predicted growth of the UK economy, the NHS would be able to afford the massive increase in demand for psychoactive medication and the population would drop as people threw themselves off bridges. It's a win-win situation.

clv101 · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:45

Kristoph said:
Katla's tremors seem to be increasing by the looks of it.

Anyone able to give more detail on this graph?

http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html

The five charts are five different monitoring points... No clue how significant it is without seeing previous years data.

Scuzi · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:48

BBC News 24 reporting that seismologists have said that the eruptions have diminished markedly and the volcano is spewing siginificantly less ash.

4p · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:52

The Ash is just off the coast of America/Canada

rypt · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:53

Thorpy said:
The Ash is just off the coast of America/Canada

Bet you the Yanks just ignore it and fly anyway

PAz · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:57

No hope of flights tomorrow then I'd guess..

meghatronic · 19 Apr 2010 at 11:58

So I was right, RN HMS Ark Royal and HMS Ocean are for civillians cross-channel.

rypt · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:02

Hence why I said Albion in my post

meghatronic · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:05

rypt said:
Hence why I said Albion in my post

But that is for troops. And well within capacity. So public comfort isn't an issue.

Bear · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:06

rypt said:
Bet you the Yanks just ignore it and fly anyway

You think with the US sueing culture that if a plane went down and killed everyone on it that there wouldnt be a massive law suit persuing all involved that let the plane fly whilst ignoring all the safety warnings ?

rypt · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:07

Bear said:
You think with the US sueing culture that if a plane went down and killed everyone on it that there wouldnt be a massive law suit persuing all involved that let the plane fly whilst ignoring all the safety warnings ?

Sue who exactly? If the FAA say it is safe to fly, it is safe to fly
I expect the Yanks to get some proper readings also rather than just use computer models

lookitsjonno · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:08

F16 fighters have reported engine damage from the ash aparently.

dannyjo22 · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:09

freebooter said:
From the media reports I thought it was the airlines that wanted to fly and were putting pressure on the government to allow them to? Have the test flights shown it to be worse than the airlines thought?

We are not allowed to put up any aircraft and neither will Ryanair because we have twin engined aircraft. The CAA won't allow it, so for know we won't know the effect on a 737 or 320.

Scuzi said:
The airlines want to fly. The government wants the airlines to fly. The aviation authorities want the airlines to fly. Pilots want to fly. Passengers want to fly.

Everyone who wants to fly wants someone else to make the call that flying should be allowed. Nobody is going to stand up to make that call out of fear or because they perceive such a judgement to be above their salary.

Exactly, everyone is waiting for someone else to make the call. The testing should be done by our govenment in conjunction with the CAA, rather than letting airlines play about sending planes up.

4p · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:11

We still haven't got any clarity regarding what the government is doing to get airspace open
Paul Botell, TUI chief financial officer

WOT LOL

Get a giant hoover? Whats this guy on

antijoke · 19 Apr 2010 at 12:14

So what's the deal with this volcano and Katla, are they getting ready to let rip?