Volcanic ash closes airports in Northern Europe

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

For those of you that like to mimic real world operations and restrictions when flying for EHM, have a look at these pages from the BBC News website:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8621581.stm

It looks like other hubs than ESSA, EHAM or EGLL will be better for your flights for a couple of days

Alternatively of course, you can just set your weather settings to Cumulonimbus up to 60,000 ft with very heavy turbulence and 'engine failures' to very probable  

[EHM-2387 Eric-Jan]

Iceland did not get it:
We want your Cash, not your ash ...

 

(Sorry, just couldn't resist. No harm intended

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

Well, British Airways sent a Jumbo up into the ash cloud for a couple of hours and declared that they don't know what all the fuss is about! Nothing to do with how much money they're losing this year of course  

Not to be outdone, EuroHarmony has also sent a B747 up into the cloud to test out whether the airspace ban is unnecessary... I'll leave you to judge the results for yourselves but Rolls Royce were not impressed!

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