were able to get the engines started miraculously and that s not a record that any pilot wants to set, really. bill: i don t want to be on that flight,et. why can t the pilot fly around this like they do in a thunderstorm? the problem is all the clouds look the same, a volcanic cloud, from the naked eye, and a regular cloud. now, my fearful flying clients who i help and they ve been asking me a lot of questions like this, the radar, the aircraft is designed to pick up water drop let, not pick up volcanic ash, so that s the problem there, and it s a very densely populated area as far as air traffic goes in the north electric north atlantic, so airplanes can t be flying haphazardly because there s no radar coverage out there so it could be a mess, so that s the reason they have to go ahead and shut it down. bill: this is going to be with us until the volcano settles down, i imagine. yesterday we had a guy going up to 55,000 feet in the