The airline Easyjet recently completed test to try to recreate the conditions that existed after the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted three years ago.
purpose is to see if the technology AVOID (Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and Detector) allow aircraft to avoid volcanic ash cloud in such a low density that they are not visible.
One tonne of ash released into the air over the Bay of Biscay off the Spanish coast between about 2,700 and 3,350 meters in altitude of an Airbus A400M.
artificial cloud was between 180 and 240 feet deep and just over three kilometers in diameter. According to British newspaper the Telegraph as synthesis Cloud first meets the eye, but dissipated quickly.
test plane – an Airbus A340-300 – fitted with AVOID then flew towards the artificial cloud. Volcano sensor detected the cloud despite not synthesis and measured its density, which was within the values ??measured during the crisis of 2010.
– The threat from ilsändska volcanoes have not disappeared and it’s important to find a solution to the problem. So this experiment is pleased, said EasyJet Ian Davies to the Telegraph.
– This test was an important step towards the technology could be used. The goal now is to work out a system that we can fit into a number of aircraft in our fleet by the end of 2014, said Davies.
Eyjafjallajökull many eruptions in March 2010 produced an ash cloud that caused all air traffic across northern and central Europe and the British Isles were canceled for nearly a week.
Thousands of planes remained on the ground, ten million passengers were affected, and the cost is estimated at over ten billion.
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