User:Snævar/Avoid

Avoid is a new weather radar for ash. The system is called Avoid, a short for Airborne Volcanic Object Indentifier and Detector.

Avoid was created by Dr Fred Prata of the Norwegian Insitute for Air Reasearch. Avoid uses infra-red tenchology, that see the ash cloud 62 miles ahead of the aircraft. Avoid opeates at altitudes between 5,000 and 50,000 feet. Information from a plane equipped with Avroid along with satellite data would be used to build an accurate map of the volcanic ash.

Budget airline easyJet will be the first to trial the avoid system. An Airbus 340 plane will be used during the trial.