Craigman9
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 06:39 PM |
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Yet another Ash Cloud :(
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!
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 06:46 PM |
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We've got a holiday in the med booked for 2 weeks time, best they get the damn fans blowing the stuff West 
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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scootz
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 06:51 PM |
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I see O'bama has come across to see us from the Emerald Isle early because of it!
It's Evolution Baby!
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T66
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 06:59 PM |
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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.
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Craigman9
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 07:02 PM |
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Doesn't fill me with any hope
I want to get back to Newcastle too!
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mad4x4
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 07:08 PM |
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Were in Magaluf in two weeks time (past Saturday) we were hit with delays last year as well
Scot's do it better in Kilts.
MK INDY's Don't Self Centre Regardless of MK Setting !
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nick205
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 08:20 PM |
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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
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daviep
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 09:41 PM |
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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.
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 23/5/11 at 10:04 PM |
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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!!
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james h
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 12:58 AM |
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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
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locoR1
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 04:20 AM |
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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 
 
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T66
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 07:42 AM |
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Next couple of days worth....
North East & Scotland effected the most.
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van cleef
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 08:02 AM |
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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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T66
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 12:19 PM |
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quote:
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.
As it stands at the moment, Aberdeen is within the blue zone, so will still be operating. Its the red zone which is causing the concerns as its a bit
of an unknown quantity, as the weather tends to be...
After last years debacle/blanket ban - operators will be allowed to be operate around the red zones and hopefully effect less travellers/operators.
The plus side is the mad winds we have at the moment, and according to the experts the eruption is on a smaller scale than the last.
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Craigman9
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 02:42 PM |
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I like reading that post, it gives me a little hope
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T66
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 03:00 PM |
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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 ?
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 03:09 PM |
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this is cool, that plume is huge!
linky
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Craigman9
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| posted on 24/5/11 at 03:15 PM |
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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 
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