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Old 30th Apr 2010, 19:22
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Get a sense of proportion please
Sorry but that made my day. We had a sense of proportion when it was suggested that millions of birds were slaughtered to protect us from bird flu!
The science
We bought £2 billion worth of Tamiflu as the science predicted 65000 deaths
(346 the actual number) with the recent mexican flu.

It is our LACK of proportion in this media Hype reactive society and our run by committee and quango everything ( No one ever built a statue of a committee) and where the airlines had to push for some sensibility and sense of proportion.

I repeat no one was ever killed in an aircraft by ash encounters even dense ash encounters.

I flew a business jet north to south uk hours before the airspace was closed, beautiful day, 100 mile vis at FL250, no cloud apart from broken cumulus way below.
When does flight international become the authority on what is acceptable ash or not?

Keep some proportion thats a good one

Problem we have is none of us will agree and this thread will keep going round and round in circles so best to beg to differ.

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