I guess some evidence will now exist in the engines of the helicopters that have been operating at low levels VFR in the last few days around the UK and Northern europe.
I will be genuinely interested to see what if any damage has been done to those aircraft or their engines that becomes apparent in the weeks and months to come.
In the hypothetical situation of the operators who hire their aircraft in, if they continued to operate during the VA cloud hysteria and there was damage done, will they be paying for it or will they expect the owners to pay, I was asked to fly yesterday in London and whilst it never happened I would have done so only with the owner being appraised of the situation ?
The VA Cloud does seem to have pepped things up a bit for a few operators who have been running around the country and Northern Europe picking stranded people up.
The trade in illegal public transport clearly went up, with several of the usual culprits making some cash out of the situation.