Quote from matijapkc :

Croatia is unchanged... That is good, right guys? Guys?? Guys!?

Breadfan didnt notice Croatia took all Primorska seaside And he is all happy with his happy number

btw. I plan to go over there for vacation I hope no passports would be needed soon

the New Europe Order by The Economist


http://www.economist.com/world ... ory.cfm?story_id=16003661

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

I pronounce it "that volcano" most people understand what I mean.

I prefer Eyof^ckyoutrytofly

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

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I like the more saturated colors

for some Lambo is flashy and no style

Quote from 5haz :

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The engine is still in the rear of the Mustang by the way, which will no doubt play havoc with the weight distribution of a car that isn't designed to be rear engined!

I'm curious on its weight balance - it's a body-kit, for sure not carbon

Quote from Xaid0n :

It's Eyjafjallajökull.... is it so hard? and no I didn't google it to spell it

try Chrząszczywnewoszyce

I prefer classic GT layout, mostly front-engined than most of supercars mid-engined layout so I must say I like it

Today, FIRST time since Eyf^ckyoutrytofly burst out, the airport in Reykjavik has been closed.

Last edited by AndRand, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 11:23. Reason : dictionary :)

I think nope as yellow flag forbids overtaking (I dont kno if it applies to overlapping though)

Quote from DevilDare :

Go figure.

(Probably fake but...)

(Also, the man who filmed this was stabbed soon after. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition but then someone unplugged the life support machines and stabbed him 3 more times. Let the arguments begin!)

yea right, and passing-by was just a spectator...

The problem is there are no known limits of ash (as there is many types of) that are safe for jet engines. As it was said in this discussion:

Quote :

Q:Would it be possible to publish alternative aviation maps for ash / non ash conditions, so that aviation authorities have more flexibillity in closing or reallocating airspace without exposing aircraft to more than a determined safe limit of ash density?

A: The case is being made by the airline community for much better analysis of what the ash cloud contains and the likely impact on the airframe and engines.
The EU has called a meeting of the various safety authorities for later this week to discuss this and other allied issues.
More testing by airframe and aero engine manufacturers will most probably be the likely outcome.
I would stronly expect the airlines to keep pressure on to ensure this is done in timely order!

So any quantity of ash can trigger an airspace closure

Quote from 5haz :

Part of Indonesia is a far smaller area than most of Europe.

What was it? Mount Falunggong?

Still I am wondering how can you close airspace according to dispersion model for a cloud not measuring actual quantities?

Last edited by AndRand, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 21:02.

What the heck?

"EU ministers reached the deal to gradually ease restrictions" (Euronews)

Deal over what? Quantity of ash?

Several airline companies sent their planes (with no passengers) to check ash cloud danger. According to enormous losses by airlines, if they send aircrafts to collect samples I predict huge inquiry on EU comission level on how come ash cloud dispersion prediction could ground so many flights with no samples gathered whatsoever.

Situation was so urgent that Euronews had English and Russian info on top news tab

well, I didnt look closely and I thought Skipper's pic was an Aston shot. With all blurring, reflections, desaturation and so on. So I would like to see original photo to choose who to vote

Quote from anttt69 :

The satellite pic shows the dust cloud roughly 150miles north of Scotland .
So what the heck is all the fuss about? Bloody bunch of idiots in control as usual.

I heard some Scottsman sent a balloon out to the outer space frontier. Maybe he should send it for some samples

Quote from FireMike15 :

Very cool one Lynce. I think i know who i should vote.

I dont Skip and Lynce made so good job that it is hard to choose

@Lynce: where is your subliminal message? Cant find it I cant figure out the reflections under the bridge

@Skip: it is not B&W great blink on wheels

or black rain...

Quote from MadCatX :

Information about visibility differs from the originally stated 150 m up to 500 m according to ATIS provided by the Smolensk airfield. I guess that 500 m visibility is considered to be quite OK for someone standing on the ground, but in the airplane flying at 300kph you see only 6 seconds ahead...

There are no less than 3 independent altimeters in Tu-154M (at least those used by Czech Airlines had it like this), two barometric and one radar. Problem is that the radar altimeter in Tu-154M doesn't have a digital display but just analog gauge, so in case of a sudden change of the terrain profile there is a slight delay of the readout until the needle catches up. Radar altimeters also don't work reliably over cities and really rugged terrain.
For all we know the plane collided with trees and I'm not sure whether the radar altimeter would pick them up.

As far we know that visibility was 400m - so the pilot didnt need any altimeter in fact to see how high he is - 10m or 50m. He obviously ignored (or didnt know the procedure which is very doubtful) expectation for response with altitude - with no ILS tower control sends info on distance, waits for altitude answer and corrects the pilot with proper landing path, which controllers know probably by heart.

So summing this up - the pilot was several times informed that he was t00 low but he pursued like a suicide.

If he had any pressure on him - it would be disqualifying for the captain of the air vessel if he approved pressure from the passengers and rejected sugestions by the control tower.

Dont they use low-altitude radar altimeter (relative to ground) in TU-154 apart from barometric one?

Here you have animation that is told to be on balck-box data (it is from newspaper and BBs are just read at the moment so I will wait till official one) http://www.youtube.com/v/LnPh7 ... or2=0xcfcfcf&hl=pl_PL

Last edited by AndRand, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:39.

Quote from vencipower :

edit by me

I think you could do is cut windshields and paste them over the blur with transparency because now all the reflections are gone