Author Topic: Volcano Grounds 'Planes  (Read 53351 times)

Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #25 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:42:26 pm »
Thursday night is usually rain given that I play 5-a-side football after work.

On one of the first Thursday evenings it is warm and sunny it threatens to 'rain' volcanic ash.

Sloblocks.
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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #26 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:43:00 pm »
Uruk-hai or just plain Orc?  :-*

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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #27 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:43:33 pm »
Thursday night is usually rain given that I play 5-a-side football after work.

On one of the first Thursday evenings it is warm and sunny it threatens to 'rain' volcanic ash.

Sloblocks.

I thought that a sunny Elenith was too much to ask.  The forecast was very good for Saturday.

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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #28 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:44:05 pm »
Shouldn't this topic be 'Volcano Grinds Planes'?

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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #29 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:44:21 pm »
Shouldn't this topic be 'Volcano Grinds Planes'?

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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #30 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:46:52 pm »
And: 'planes
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #31 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:53:16 pm »

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #32 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:53:54 pm »
We are now closed....

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #33 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:55:05 pm »
There was a big noisy bastard heading fro Stanstead when I had my last fag-break, but it's suspiciously quiet here now.
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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #34 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:55:29 pm »

Doesn't work with NHS steam-powered browser.

It's slow to load & update for me, but it gets there. It may be rather over-subscribed just now...

It's fascinating seeing where planes are flying and where they're not.



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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #35 on: 15 April, 2010, 12:59:20 pm »

It's easy to see where they have closed the airspace.
http://www.flightradar24.com/

Copenhagen and Stockholm will close within a couple of hours.

Can't see it. :(

Doesn't work with NHS steam-powered browser.

I just raced Chrome vs Firefox vs IE all at the same time to see which one would open the site first.

Firefox won easily
Chrome limped past the finish line, on the edge of giving up
IE crashed ::-)
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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #36 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:00:34 pm »
I got an errol message which basically pointed at my software and snorted a scornful laugh.
Getting there...

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #37 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:06:20 pm »
'tis a fascinating website - thanks Gus :thumbsup:
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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #38 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:09:15 pm »
I got an errol message.

<mode=Long Good Friday>

What, Errol the ponce from Brixton?  You can't trust anyone these days>

</mode>
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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #39 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:13:10 pm »
That's him. ;D
Getting there...

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #40 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:20:52 pm »
Errol is just down the road from me..
Not very far from Liff.

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #41 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:22:56 pm »
...Liff.

And we know the Meaning of that ;)
Getting there...

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Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #42 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:28:18 pm »
Thursday night is usually rain given that I play 5-a-side football after work.

On one of the first Thursday evenings it is warm and sunny it threatens to 'rain' volcanic ash.

Sloblocks.

I thought that a sunny Elenith was too much to ask.  The forecast was very good for Saturday.

From BBC News.

Quote
The plume is so high that it will neither be visible nor pose a threat to the health of humans on the ground, although Dr Rothery added that we may have a "spectacularly red sunset" on Thursday evening.
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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #43 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:35:39 pm »
Election broadcast by the planet, according to a poster on the Grauniad.
Or a comment on what she thinks of the third runway....
Not overly audacious
@suffolkncynical

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #44 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:35:57 pm »
If the trains are still running, it doesn't count as an apocalypse...

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #45 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:36:44 pm »
TWF63 is a naughty plane probably just about to land in Southend (where it lives?)

Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #46 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:42:17 pm »
Shouldn't this topic be 'Volcano Grinds Planes'?

It is in Kensington and Knightsbridge...

Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #47 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:44:28 pm »
TWF63 is a naughty plane probably just about to land in Southend (where it lives?)

Low flying prop aeroplanes not as susceptible to high cruising jet engined aeroplanes?
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

Re: Volcano Grounds Planes
« Reply #48 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:45:47 pm »
Radio news items suggest it's more about the ash fecking up the planes, than a visibility thing. Quite exciting though!

[still sunny here]

Cancelled my trip to Spain about 3 hours ago...

Means I can go to the pub now for my weekly beerage  :thumbsup:

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Re: Volcano Grounds 'Planes
« Reply #49 on: 15 April, 2010, 01:46:37 pm »
If the trains are still running, it doesn't count as an apocalypse...

I'm sure that Bob Crow will find something in this...  ;) ;D
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