I drove the kit to work today, before I left my good wife said are you sure you should be driving it with the pollution coming from iceland, stupidly
I ingnored her advice and jumped jumped in the car and drove to work.
Now I having arrived I find out there is a huge volcanic ash cloud on it's way from Iceland, it will be here about 1pm. Oh dear.
Any advice for driving in an ash cloud?? I have a pipercross sausage filter so hopefully that will stop any of it going through the engine. All the
Scottish airports are shut, plane engine and ash don't mix very well. Must be the end of the world.
linker thingy
[Edited on 15/4/10 by Slater]
Just ignore it I reckon. Manchester airports shut 7am until 1 pm so we must be getting it before you?
Sounds like a crock to me!
oops! could you cover it and leave it there and get a lift back. save the engine sucking in crap.
Unless you're driving at 10,000 ft I doubt it will be much of a problem.
My advice would be not to drive over 10,000 feet, that way you may just avoid it..
Yep, apparently it's between 6 and 11 miles up! So unless you're running your car on Helium I don't think you'll have an issue
IMagine if you drive through it you'd clog up your filter.
Mate of my dad's did one fly a 747 through an unforecast ash cloud and suddenly found himself with 4 dead engines. Slightly exciting
As long as the filter is well oiled the engine should be OK. Health and safety is advising that all UK residents should hold their breath till next Tuesday to avoid ash contamination of their lung tissues.
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Originally posted by edspurrier
Mate of my dad's did one fly a 747 through an unforecast ash cloud and suddenly found himself with 4 dead engines. Slightly exciting
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Originally posted by AdamR
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Originally posted by edspurrier
Mate of my dad's did one fly a 747 through an unforecast ash cloud and suddenly found himself with 4 dead engines. Slightly exciting
That was on Air Crash Investigation a while back - one of my favourite TV shows.
Must have been
terrified... hell, I was terrified just watching it!
I was on my way to buy some wet and dry paper to rub down my paint.
Think now I will wait and then rub it with a dry cloth.
What grit do you think ash is equivalent to ?
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Originally posted by mistergrumpy
Just ignore it I reckon. Manchester airports shut 7am until 1 pm so we must be getting it before you?
Sounds like a crock to me!
In the past we have all, or most, woken up to 'red dust' where winds in the Sahara have dumped the sand on us, so, I would imagine there may
be a 'certain' amount of ash residue dumped upon us....at some point.
As to whether or not that 'certain amount' is negligible or significant, no one is saying......I suppose it depends on which way the wind is
blowing.
It seems as though Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted will be closing at around 1pm.
However, I am 6 miles south east of Heathrow, and the skies are eerily quiet at the moment.... .... nothing going over toward Europe, and nowt
coming in from that direction either.......I haven't even seen any flights taking off towards the west either... (Americas) ......
Having just typed that ^ ^ I have just heard a plane...ascending and heading south....but still none on the 'Europe flight path'.....
Fozzie .....
Was supposed to be flying this morning (window seats at the front!). From what I was told, not a lot will fly in the UK maybe until Sunday!!!!
Smells of Sulphur also reported in the shetlands!
For details of the 747 over indonesia try :
linky
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Originally posted by JC
For details of the 747 over indonesia try :
linky
ash is nasty to jet engines (after all they don't have air filters!), it is very abrasive (glass shards basically), and the planes instruments
can't tell it from clouds, so you don't know it's there (hence the no-flying rules if they know it's about).
The stuff sandblast the windscreen (not good nice to see where your going). It also melts in the engine being glass, clogging stuff, and then it also
sandblasts the engines tubine blades... The stuff is also conductive and could play havoc with the planes electrics..
Like said unless your driving the 7 at 8km up in the air (I think the ask would be the least of you worries!) I'd not worry to much...
Dan
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Originally posted by JC
For details of the 747 over indonesia try :
linky
Bandwidth exceeded! Obviously a popular website today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.
no different to any other day in 'the big smoke' then???