Pilotage
As a Captain on private jets I am aware of long hour days
But misplaced interviews costs our industry £Millions and the jobs of our pilots.
As stated in long threads on the subject no one in over 60 years of aviation and well before we had this scientific measuring equiptment has been killed by an ash encounter which cannot be said for bird strikes or weather encounters.
A lot of panic reactions are motivated by the media who in turn motivate the politicians who in turn overreact to be seen to be doing something.
addendum
Having said all the above I do acknowledge the need for intensive actual testing to confirm the computer generated predictive flows of ash and their density levels at different levels which to date have been grossely innacurate.
What density levels actually reflect DENSE is another question???
Pace