Originally Posted by
Bruce Wayne
Do you subscribe that we dont fly if there is any contaminants in the atmoshpere ?
Of course not but thats not the legal position in Northern Europe currently. We need an effective compromise but our leaders have failed to provide this within the contingency legislation for volcanic ash events in Northern Europe.
So you are saying that the BA flight to Cardiff and other VFR operations which have occured since last week have been conducted outside of regulations ?
As I've said previously you are allowed to fly VFR outside CAS in the UK. There was undoubtedly special dispensation for wee willie walsh's publicity stunt.
Can you please post the regulation and under which regulatory body this citation pertains to which should therefore stipulate the conentrations at which airspace would therefore be 'contaminated',
As I said previously the 'ban' is a blanket ban and I cannot post chapter and verse as the rules and regulations are not public domain.
how that airsapce is defined .. is it a FIR or an airway ...
Airspace is airspace, some is controlled and some not
and who would therefore determine the contamination levels and by what method.
As I previously said we have no defined standard and we have no method by which any concentrations could be measured. This is all stuff which should have been done as a contingency measure but wasn't. Possibly because this volcanic event is unprecedented and our great leaders never considered the risk high enough to spend the cash. One can only hope that they will do so as a matter of urgency.
BD