This is a total mess, how can we have NATS taking advice from the Met Office producing charts like these:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation...1271763280.png
And EuroControl taking advice from whoever else producing charts like this.
https://www.cfmu.eurocontrol.int/PUB...olcan_FIRs.pdf
I fully understand the safety calls and am not disputing it, but one would have hoped in todays age in that some kind of co-ordination between air traffic services could come up with what at least looks like a common approach. How can we have a position on one side of the channel shich is so vastly different to that in continental Europe? And Im not talking about the fact that the ash could exist either side Im referring to the fact that one thinks it is there and poses a major risk and one does not.
We now have relatively busy airspace on one side of the channel and nothing much flying here at all.
I await the NATS announcement with interest at 15:00.