OT : Volcanic Ash Cloud
WTF! Those of you in Europe, if you look out the window is there a big cloud? The MotoGP in Japan was cancelled this weekend because they couldn’t guarantee getting everybody from Europe there on time.
What am I going to watch this weekend? I’ll have to find a house party somewhere and drag my mix rig along…
Distraught, Phil.
had nothing but blue skies last couple of days.
shame i’ve been at work 
Soundtrack:
+1 + no stripes in the sky caused by planes cause for almost 2 weeks there where no plains 
. lucky me haven´t booked any flights in that time
yeah, iceland just took a crap into the atmosphere…
Bjork just got dropped to the #2 biggest icelandic export
Ha haa, classic!! That made me chuckle.
Nice and sunny here in Texas, but storms are a brewin to the west and tornadoes are starting to drop out of the sky. Tis the season though.
Oh Christ are we sick of this on the TV in the UK.
All these fuckers on holidays stuck in hot countries my heart bleeds…
Seriously guys the News has been non-stop. And now that people are finally getting home we are shown footage of people and the their tearful reuniting with family like they have been plucked out of some war torn country of survived a fricking Tsunami.
YOU HAD A FEW DAYS LONGER HOLIDAY … GET OVER YOURSELVES.
And now… its all the fucking governments fault for not be prepared for a Volcanic Ash Cloud… How do you prepare for that, make a million sandwiches and keep them in a huge freezer just in case.
Even the R.A.F. has still got grounded Jet Fighters and if those fuckers aint taking to the skies i certainly aint.
Watching the BBC news makes me want to kill myself and or others.
I blame this cunt:
I never know what the weather will be like in New England. Never.
I’m expecting Snow, Rain, Sun, Cloudy for every single day all year round.
… on topic I bet the ash made some cool sunsets.
There was no ash dude, we have probably had the best spring with the clearest blue sky’s I have seen in years! I didn’t understand the cloud thing, I thought is was about poor visibility, turns out they were worried about it clogging up the jet engines. You would have thought they had air filters or some shit, but then I aint a jet engine expert.
the granulate clumps and causes the engine to choke
My understanding is that after intense pressure from the airlines, flights got moving again, but there are still ash particles in the atmosphere so..
Either they grounded the planes unnecessarily or
They should still be grounded.
Either way, its fubar.
Not quite. The granulate is nasty stuff, hard and destructive. The way a turbine engine works, the compression fan outer tips run close to the outer walls of the engine at very high speeds (in fact the outer walls are wear strips that are designed to maintain minimum gap to the fans). In the volcanic ash, the fans work like sand blasters to the wear strips and other internal engine components wearing them out extremely quickly (minutes). Ounce the engine can no longer compress the air sufficiently, the burner runs out of oxygen and a “flame out” occurs. And as the engine is now worn out, it can no longer be re-lit. Game over.
Volcanic ash and water contamination are two of the biggest contributors to total engine loss in commercial aviation and it is taken VERY seriously. I currently work in aerospace and am finishing the certification of a flight control system, where this failure mechanism is clearly written in the regulations as one we have to cater for.
All that said, how much is too much? We can only err on the conservative side. Hence ground all of Europe.
But my weekend plans are still upset by no MotoGP…
Phil.
The skies in London have been remarkably clear which is odd as they are usually covered in shitty car fumes lol!
as for the cunt leading the Lib Dems god help us all >.<
Never seen a single bit of ash in Scotland and we were closest in Europe to the volcano. Skies have been fairly clear the last week. Well, as clear as the skies get in Scotland. Still feckin’ freezing mind you 
Not to get drawn into a political debate, the leader of the Lib Dems talks the most sense of the three main political parties.
That being said, they’re all a shower of bastards at the end of the day.
LOL im not sure that the ash cloud was ‘that’ visible from the ground.
Some crazy pictures out there of the cloud from space.
Not sure how relevant they are to Jumbo Jets but im pretty certain that the no-fly thing was a good idea.
I aint buying this idea that it was just agencies panicking.
Oh and on the point of Nick Clegg, have listen to him next time hes in debate and try pick out his actual policies and grasp of the actual figures involved in his waffle.
Hes coasting. Just like Cameron ‘was’. He just talks in soundbites.
“we need change” “we want an alternative to Lab/Con” “we need to get a grip on immigration”
Thats all hes got.
Meh… just my goofy opinion.
While we are off topic on an off topic thread: Karlos, when was the last time a politician REALLY said something? They all seem like wafflers to me.
I do vote, but never hold my breath that things will change (never mind actually improve).
Who was it that said “if voting could change things it would be made illegal”?
Phil.
Wasnt that Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys).
Yeah your right man they all waffle but when you look like, and have the personality of Gordon Brown our PM all youve got going is your grasp of statistics and figures.
He may be the first Prime Minister to bore the nation into voting him out.
Unfortunately we may end up with the one who actually is a bordeline Nazi or the one whos been stupidly accused of being a Nazi who probably cant spell it. Either way we are fucked.
OT thread went WAY OT, interesting convo being in canada tho