The Iceland Volcano Thread

Hogzy

BA pilot just thanked Shannon for opening for 24hrs...

Anyone interested in the BA flight go to this thread

Su Campu

From the cameras it now seems the plume is heading north for the first ime in a dew days.

snow ghost

Deep Easterly wrote: »

I am looking west to see if I can see some contrails behind the mountains along the coast. Can't see anything but a load of mares tails being highlighted by the sun setting.

Just seen it going past here northwards... it's tail smoke is pretty cool, but breaks up very quickly it is just turning around North Mayo at the moment.

JustAddWater

Came from the canaries

yogidc26 wrote: »

it looks like the Air Europa flight is going to fly right over Dublin or just pass me in Wicklow:D

Figuramatyi

Su Campu wrote: »

From the cameras it now seems the plume is heading north for the first ime in a dew days.

Wrong. Look at the sun shining at the ash plume. If it was heading north, the sun would have to shine from the south-southeast, which is pretty much impossible at this time of the day, isn't it

Deep Easterly

Spotted one just now. Plane flying north and located west of Mace Head approx:

Deep Easterly

snow ghost wrote: »

Just seen it going past here northwards... it's tail smoke is pretty cool, but breaks up very quickly it is just turning around North Mayo at the moment.

Yep snow, same here. Contrail breaking up on its back. Must be the same plane we are looking at!

snaps

Above me now is a plane turning very sharply. If Deep Easterly is here he will see it if he looks to his NW. The Jet stream streaks from his wings are very plain to see. Its very high up.

JustAddWater

whats the craic with the isle of man lad, he made for dublin then turned back out to sea!

Hogzy

Heathrow Opens at 2200 so they are all waiting till then to head into london

yogidc26

going to Heathrow I think, looks like a few are heading that way

Deep Easterly

snaps wrote: »

Above me now is a plane turning very sharply. If Deep Easterly is here he will see it if he looks to his NW. The Jet stream streaks from his wings are very plain to see. Its very high up.

Can't see it now snaps. There seems to be an unusual bank of cloud up towards your side? Like a decending bank of altostratus?

snaps

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Can't see it now snaps. There seems to be an unusual bank of cloud up towards your side? Like a decending bank of altostratus?

Thats strange as i have no cloud at all here. Its NWW of me. It seems very high up.

Deep Easterly

snaps wrote: »

Thats strange as i have no cloud at all here. Its NWW of me. It seems very high up.

Could be some residual smoke from further bog fires today or something. Either way, still there, although maybe it is closer to me than it looks.

stunning footage shot at 5.oo am this morning.

http.ruv.straumer.is

http://http.ruv.straumar.is/static.ruv.is/vefur/20042010_myndir_omar.wmv


this link may be better. sorry, its been a while since ive been on here, forgot how to do stuff.:)

Mr Benevolent

Katla had a strange spike in tremor activity about two hours ago, activity suddenly shot up by 20%. Odd.

irish1967

I see the big ocean Liner the Celebrity Eclipse is on its way now on its taxi run.

http://www.shipais.com/showship.php?mmsi=249666000

ch750536

meh

ch750536

ch750536 wrote: »

WMV DOWNLOADS ARE DODGY they can hold viruses.

Sorry, I wasnt aware of that.

irish1967

Hmmm... I was sure there were two planes off the SW coast of Uk a while ago.. where did the other one go????:eek:

My name is URL

Jake1 wrote: »

http://http.ruv.straumar.is/static.ruv.is/vefur/20042010_myndir_omar.wmv


this link may be better. sorry, its been a while since ive been on here, forgot how to do stuff.:)

Class video.. you can see the pressure waves traveling through the plume with each ejection

Webmonkey

irish1967 wrote: »

Hmmm... I was sure there were two planes off the SW coast of Uk a while ago.. where did the other one go????:eek:

I can't load flight radar anymore. Find it yet?

Aerlingus are after cancelling flights until 1PM tomorrow.
http://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obel01im1/Services/disruption_1504.jsp?P_OID=0&Category=3

snow ghost

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Yep snow, same here. Contrail breaking up on its back. Must be the same plane we are looking at!

Same rusty orange sunset too!

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My name is URL

You know that thing that parents do to make babies eat food.. where they pretend the spoon is an aeroplane.?

This is like the real life equivalent of that

rebel girl 15

Did Willie Walsh know that the UK airspace would be open?? Very risky thing to do, flights coming from North America and Africa according to radarvirtuel, just spotted a Thomas Cook plane from Greece up around Holland bound for Gatwick.

The airlines must have known that the airspace was gonna be open???

jambofc

looks like the weather was lovely over the west,it was cloudy from around 8.30am here and all day with only the briefest of sunny breaks.
that video is amazing :eek:

rebel girl 15

Webmonkey wrote: »

I can't load flight radar anymore. Find it yet?

Aerlingus are after cancelling flights until 1PM tomorrow.
http://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obel01im1/Services/disruption_1504.jsp?P_OID=0&Category=3

2/3 heading for Heathrow from SW coast

sunbabe08

just checked the radar. the flights are clogging up around london again waiting to land.


i betcha the first flight to land will be on sky news

irish1967

Ah ha Vancouver made it first !!

irish1967

sunbabe08 wrote: »

just checked the radar. the flights are clogging up around london again waiting to land.


i betcha the first flight to land will be on sky news

They had it live!!

irish1967

Anyone wanna take bets Irish airspace will now open within the next few hours?

sunbabe08

darn it, i missed it

Hogzy

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Did Willie Walsh know that the UK airspace would be open?? Very risky thing to do, flights coming from North America and Africa according to radarvirtuel, just spotted a Thomas Cook plane from Greece up around Holland bound for Gatwick.

The airlines must have known that the airspace was gonna be open???

TBH id say there was some negotiating and BA told their flights to come in and if needs be can be diverted to Shannon and other EURO airports. Not a bad decision if you ask me, im sure passengers would prefer to be stuck closer to home!

Mr Benevolent

irish1967 wrote: »

Anyone wanna take bets Irish airspace will now open within the next few hours?

http://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=93&n=96&a=875

maquiladora

Confab wrote: »

Katla had a strange spike in tremor activity about two hours ago, activity suddenly shot up by 20%. Odd.

That wasnt a tremor at Katla, it was a small 1.4 earthquake right under the erupting volcano, the first earthquake that close to the area of eruption for several days.

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/myrdalsjokull/

snow ghost

Looks like Wille faced them off and they backed down - they have changed their analysis of engine tolerance levels to the ash clouds - what a farce.

sunbabe08

and we're back to normal again. sky news is showing planes land. thank god

sunbabe08

guy on sky news sounds to me they made a boo boo

rebel girl 15

sunbabe08 wrote: »

guy on sky news sounds to me they made a boo boo

I don't have sky?? What did he say??

Min

Pangea wrote: »

Well has anyone seen any spectactular sunsets because of the ash ?
Its been going on a week now the eruptions ,I wonder will the weather start to be affected?

Last Saturday there was a spectacular sunset, it looked like the sun was going to go behind a cloud as it set, it didn't as it was thick haze and it went a strange red colour.

have2flushtwice

big and all as he airspace is, they still have to get good and close to each other! i cant post the image now...duhh!

yogidc26

TNT airway has just left Dublin a few mins ago

have2flushtwice

how can you see the tnt aircraft? theres nothing on my screen.

RockPaper

You can see it on http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

RonMexico

4 flights passed over my house in the past hour or so. Near Shannon Airport.

peasant

Pretty cool vid of Enya strutting her stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOh1ahOAAI

yogidc26

www.flightradar24. didn't have it

maquiladora

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

Fairly dramatic drop in tremors at the "esk" and "god" stations in the last hour.

kakee

Hello folks,

I saw an aeroplane flying over Tipperary town at exactly 10pm tonight. The news reports say Aer lingus and Ryanair have cancelled schedules until tomorrow at least. I reckon this plane was flying from Shannon to Dublin. Test flight maybe?