haha sorrybut i just saw this story
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267404/Iceland-volcano-eruption-Met-Office-criticised-6-day-UK-airspace-closure.html
'A scientific model based on ‘probability’ rather than fact was used by the government agency to forecast the spread of the volcanic ash cloud, according to critics.'
what the fuck do they think weather forecasts are? if we rely on 'fact' we're reduced to looking out of the window and saying
'ooh, there's no ash there right now. let's put a plane up!'
'err, chief, there's a wind from iceland'
'THERE'S NO ASH THERE NOW, IS THERE? put a plane up, cunt'
- two hours later -
*crash*
(www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267404/Iceland-volcano-eruption-Met-Office-criticised-6-day-UK-airspace-closure.html
'A scientific model based on ‘probability’ rather than fact was used by the government agency to forecast the spread of the volcanic ash cloud, according to critics.'
what the fuck do they think weather forecasts are? if we rely on 'fact' we're reduced to looking out of the window and saying
'ooh, there's no ash there right now. let's put a plane up!'
'err, chief, there's a wind from iceland'
'THERE'S NO ASH THERE NOW, IS THERE? put a plane up, cunt'
- two hours later -
*crash*
boris the spider,
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:54,
archived)
i bet there were loads of volunteers for the test flights"it might turn your engine to confetti but at least you'll have died doing the thing you love"
(,
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:06,
archived)
Apparently they're sending up their oldest pilotsAnd I think it was KLM sent up their chief executive. I suspect a board mutiny is in progress there.
( boris the spider,
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:11,
archived)
It's amazinghow so many people with no experience in aeronautics, volcanology or meteorology, are suddenly all experts on whether planes can fly safely in these conditions
(
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:26,
archived)
When they said on the radio last nightthat several F-16s flying regularly through the cloud had reported damage that was enough evidence for me. Sending a brand new plane on one flight from Heathrow to Cardiff couldn't possibly give an accurate measure of long term abrasive effects.
/sudden expert
(/sudden expert
wuffle, the b3ta bunny 's flea collar isn't working on,
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:30,
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I love how some 2 hour max test flightsare immediately equivalent to 10,000 2 hour MIN flights.
I suspect that some of these journalists have little conception of statistics.
(I suspect that some of these journalists have little conception of statistics.
boris the spider,
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 12:07,
archived)
