During my many thousands of worldwide flying hours I often experienced St Elmo's Fire. Are you saying that I spent a significant time of my flying career flying through volcanic ash?
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S
St Elmo's Fire alone is not an evidence for ash, however encounters i'am describing happened exactly in defined areas on that VA chart at specified time. Combination of these strongly suggests that ash is in russian airspace, and been there for at least 24 hours. Countries like Bulgaria had shut their FIRs long before cloud even approached state's boundaries. Russian airspace is wide open regardless of all signs that ash cloud almost now into 1/3 of it's territory and moving further...