The Met Office started from the premise that any VA is dangerous to jet engines, therefore the presence of any VA must mandate a total ban on aviation.
In any cubic metre of air anywhere on the face of the Earth, there will be a small amout of VA, therefore no aviation must take place anywhere. QED
I'm afraid this is the kind of expertise we have in the UK today. That other countries still hold the UK in high scientific regard is surely on the momentum of a former glory? Many scientific degrees from some provincial universities are '
cheap' acadmically, and deliberately avoid some of the challenging, yet absolutely critical concepts. Such is the political apetite for '
inclusive' and '
accessible' education that public sector organisations are encouraged to promote and engage such minor graduates.
It comes therefore as no surprise that absurd deductions such as these are published with no peer review and little consultation amongst the real experts of the piece, those who live and work in the atmosphere everyday, and craft their trade around it. Still worse, the aviation community in general, and pilots in particular are dogmatically sidelined as natural class enemies and polluters of the planet, wholly anathema to the Islington wine bar clique of champagne socialism.
Thank heavens for the CEO of Big and his uncompromising and confrontational style, which every other day would be directed at us, but in this instance pricked the bubble of stasis, and dragged the Alice in Wonderland world of sofa to armchair cabinet government, its unelected peers, and its cosy mates in Brighton Poly, unceremoniously into the real world.
