Hello and welcome to episode 211 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with

Jason or been with,

It's happy Wednesday to you, Ian.

Happy Wednesday to you, Jason, and happy Volcano Day.

Oh no, not again.

Where is it this time?

What is it doing?

What flight is it impacting?

How can I see it in the app?

Where can't flights fly?

Is it coming here? Give me all of the details. Is it Iceland again because we won't

tolerate that anymore from them? It's not Iceland. Oh okay. But it looks like it's about to

start affecting Trans-Pacific flight. So this is the Shavuch volcano in in Russia on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the one that erupts, and I don't want to say, frequent basis, but has erupted and has been

cause for concern before. It's a cranky volcano. But this time it's erupting and the ash cloud is in fact impacting flights.

It hasn't halted trans-Pacific traffic by any stretch of the imagination.

So this is an interesting situation where natural processes and geopolitics are getting in the way of aviation or impacting aviation in a major way. Because the volcano is located on the Kamchok Peninsula,

and if the eruption goes east,

it impacts more flights than if it had you know if the winds had carried it

west but the prevailing winds are carrying it east it's hitting the jet stream

so it's starting to impact a lot of flights.

I know we were talking before we started recording,

we were looking at some of the routes that would go directly through there

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