Volcanic Ash disrupting flights!!

[Garry Russell]

When the problem first came down......aircraft from Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland etc that normally go up near Iceland were routing SW to the South of England and further down to the CI before turning West which takes them north a bit from there but was past the danger area by the time it got up to the higher latitudes.

ETOPS does't seem the same limits now judging by the number of A.330, Boeing 777,767 and 757 on even the more Southerly routes............majoritory are twins now.

[TSR2]

Just spotted a BA 747, G-CIVC on its way to Cardiff from EGLL at FL200 and a light single engine aircraft out of Popham

[TSR2]

Also just read that G-LUXE is in deep maintenance hence why it hasn't been up

[Garry Russell]

There was a D-K registered powered glider doing circles south of Dinard for a while this afternoon

There was a biz jet made a couple of flights on Friday

Also a D-E registered Cessms over the last few days. This might be company own as the hits are filtered to remove private aircraft.

Having said that Dublin airport beacon was showing the other day

[TSR2]

EUROCONTROL are going to open airspace tonight for freight and positioning flights, there are already a fair few up over France / Germany

[jonesey2k]

I'm surprised that every private pilot in the country didn't make a beeline for Heathrow for the best fly in ever

[DispatchDragon]

I'm surprised that every private pilot in the country didn't make a beeline for Heathrow for the best fly in ever

Couldn't afford the landing fees without taking out a third mortage!!!

Leif

[ianhind]

Well it looks like KLM are moving their 747s - a freighter and passenger version off to the Far East.

TUIfly have two 737-800 (D-AHFI, D-AHFP) in convoy over Northern Spain - off to the Canary Islands?

And Aeroflot are flying to Madrid and New York.

The BA 747 G-CIVC mentioned earlier seemed to continue beyond Cardiff - still climbing at FL250 - maybe testing over the Atlantic. The flight numbers are associated with departure and destinations and do NOT necessarily reflect where the aircraft is actually going.

As for light aircraft, there is not a filter that stops them from showing - they mostly don't have the transmitters required to show them. And hence few Dash 8 or Regional Jets (Embraer 135/145/190) show.

Ian

Edit: Condor have just launched three 767s out of Frankfurt - testing or positioning (Tanzania, Dominica, Cuba)?

[Garry Russell]

Hi Ian

The site have been filtering out private an moct corportae aircraft since Oct or Nov last year. There is a statement somewhere about that posted just before, giving notice to that effect.

[SkippyBing]

Has any one tried downloading real world weather for their flavour of flightsim to see if it does anything special for the volcanic ash (VA in a METAR I believe)?!?