Saturday, April 17, 2010

Dust and Aircraft

Arabia is very dusty. Any wind tends to sir up dust; strong winds cause sand-storms.
Muscat has dusty days as Leamington has fogs.
But aircraft operate normally on dusty days there, as they do on foggy days here.


This is a picture of the Burj Roundabout and Rusail shopping centre on a dusty day, taken from a Fokker Friendship about 2 miles from touchdown at Muscat-Seeb Airport. Such conditions were common - often the dust haze was much worse, and extended up several thousand feet. Temperatures were rarely much below 30 degrees C., and humidities usually 80% or more.
The dust is presumably mostly from sand, so it is silica, very abrasive. 



I can't help wondering if our current shut-down is an over-reaction. We are told the dust isn't enough to impair visibility.


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You need to listen to Captain Moody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8NL6De-yuI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZl6WdJF370

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buxiF5o-0s8

Antidepressant said...

Is it not the case that the volvcanic dust clogs up the engines?

Anonymous said...

This is nonsense:

http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/safety_library_items/AirbusSafetyLib_-FLT_OPS-OPS_ENV-SEQ06.pdf

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