I work offshore and am due home early next week and I wake up this morning to read about another Ash cloud

I hope this doesn't effect flights for too long, I want to get back to work on my car.............

Might have to think of alternative travel arrangements just incase!

We've got a holiday in the med booked for 2 weeks time, best they get the damn fans blowing the stuff West

I see O'bama has come across to see us from the Emerald Isle early because of it!

Latest aviation update re the cloud, is its currently across the Scottish borders and most of Scotland, expected to move further south through the night.


The North East where I am is not too far off the southern edge of it, once the red section of the map moves south it will be a showstopper. Police/Helimed & Rescue aircraft will be permitted to operate within the danger area, but again why trash your engines unless absolutely essential.

Gas turbines are expensive.

Doesn't fill me with any hope

I want to get back to Newcastle too!

Were in Magaluf in two weeks time (past Saturday) we were hit with delays last year as well

Off to Portugal next Tuesday for a week.

No problem getting stuck there, but I have a sinking feeling we won't actually get there

My flight to Norway tommorow has been cancelled already, that's after todays flight was cancelled due to high winds

Been a cluster all in all.

Well... My ma & pa were out in Sorrento on their hols. A week ago yesterday my dad had a heart attack and was not stable enough to be flown back to the UK. He was supposed to be having a triple bypass op tomorrow but he has atypical pneumonia which is responding to antibiotics so op has been put back a week. They're likely to be out there another 3 weeks or so yet but having done what we can from here my missus has taken a few days off to go out to my mum as she is still in Sorrento as my dad is in Naples. All in all it's been a complete bloody nightmare with their dog still in kennels, the insurance company being a pain, english doctors not communicating with the insurance company, my mum worried about getting cash out there and bills that are due back here. If my missus gets stuck out there now it really will be the icing on the cake!!

On the only plus side, it meant that after people had hired cars to travel back home last year, Hertz had a special offer of taking cars back to Spain, France, Germany or Italy... for £1 per day!

So I decided to drive 3 uni friends to Berlin, via the Nurburgring

There was a bit of a hairy moment at Metzgesfeld, I was put off by the chain - seen in this Short video of a rented Zafira four up on the 'ring

Off to Spain in two weeks, I really hope it doesn't balls things up first the earth quake now this,
will be gutted if it does as this will be mine and my youngest daughters first time flying.

Just thought if my return flights delayed I could miss Newark, now that would be a disaster

Next couple of days worth....


North East & Scotland effected the most.

We have two inch's of ash cloud here already and the snow shovel is proving ineffective.

On a serious note i'm supposed to be flying to Malta from Edinburgh a week today and trying to convince the wife everything will be fine by then but i'm having serious doubt's myself.

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Originally posted by van cleef
We have two inch's of ash cloud here already and the snow shovel is proving ineffective.

On a serious note i'm supposed to be flying to Malta from Edinburgh a week today and trying to convince the wife everything will be fine by then but i'm having serious doubt's myself.

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I like reading that post, it gives me a little hope

Was chatting with my mate online yesterday, he is a sat diver and was really cheesed off, living in the chamber on the ship bouncing up and down in 6m swells....


No sympathy for him, he earns too much.


which rig you on ?

this is cool, that plume is huge!

linky

I work on ships at the moment (anchor handler tug supply to be precise)

Currently working out of Gibraltar with a rig called Noble Homer Ferrington