Volcano stops flights

[Pinza]

Thomas Cook flight TCX64L (G-MLJL) A332 inbound over NW Scotland at 18000ft  - not much else about!

[GlynH]

Volcano costing airlines $200 million (USD) per day

If it's not their Banks then it's their bloody volcanoes! ;^)

-=Glyn=-

[tarbat]

Just the one aircraft up at the moment in the Highlands, doing some sightseeing I presume.  This one has already lost its engines ;)

[DaveReid]

Just the one aircraft up at the moment in the Highlands, doing some sightseeing I presume.  This one has already lost its engines ;)

Not quite - now you see it, now you don't  :-)

[Horsham Spotter]

With all the flight restrictions today I,m looking forward to a busy day of general aviation from Shoreham,Redhill and Biggin Hill airports rather than same old Gatwick and Heathrow.
Lots of new photo,s to download from the Air Britian site.

Steve.

[Tailwinds]

It's been flying steadily at FL9950.  

A Do228 at FL9950. Let's hope their pressure suits and helmets are working OK. :o)

Whoops...Excuse the typo error. Pressure suits would indeed be needed! LOL.

[bratters]

Just seen a helicopter flying about. Nothing unusual about that except he was flying round the volcano - all courtesy of the streaming vid. link suplied by Jim.

Thanks for that link Jim - it's rivetting stuff.

[Brimon]

My mate in NATS tells me that it is highly likely U.K. airspace will be cloased until Wednesday. Also he said there is a possibility it could affect air travel for weeks.

[Brimon]

With all the flight restrictions today I,m looking forward to a busy day of general aviation from Shoreham,Redhill and Biggin Hill airports rather than same old Gatwick and Heathrow.
Lots of new photo,s to download from the Air Britian site.

Steve.

With the lack of movement up here in Scotland I may fix a transpoder to a kite just to have you all guessing!

[Runway 31]

Just had UJT90 Gulfstream 3 N90ML land at Prestwick 1107 from Teterboro.

[54901 - Jim]

VIDEO - Air Traffic over Britain - Britain from Above - BBC

Memories!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZcBeE33wc

[tarbat]

The only thing flying up here is volcanic dust ;)

[Allocator]

VIDEO - Air Traffic over Britain - Britain from Above - BBC

Memories!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZcBeE33wc

Data for the BBC for this animation was provided by AirNav from the RB Network :-)

[AirNav Development]

More details on the BBC using RadarBox data here:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=1050.0

[tarbat]

Sunday morning is not looking good.
http://metoffice.com/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271508253.png