The aircraft went on duty to ensure good weather in Moscow
As reported in the control room of the Moscow air hub, to fly to meteoritic ready 10 aircraft.
MOSCOW, June 12. /TASS/. Speciliaze went on duty to ensure good weather in Moscow if necessary. As reported in the control room of the Moscow air hub, to fly to meteoritic ready 10 aircraft.
“Today will be cloudy with clearings, in some places, forecasters predict light rain. At the present time experts have begun to meteorological intelligence to evaluate the weather conditions near Moscow, and on the distant approaches to it”, — explained in the control room.
It is planned to use the aircraft an-12 and An-26 and Yak-42. The duty will last until the end of the day, despite the fact that heavy rains are not predicted.
The process of acceleration of clouds called experts “seeding”, is carried out using organic reagents of silver iodide and melkodispersnoe cement at a distance of up to several hundred kilometers from the city. The work of speculatii has no effect on the graph of the capital’s airports because the flights are outside civilian flight corridors.
Aviation does not always
Clouds in Moscow traditionally dispersed in the may day, Victory Day, Russia Day and city Day. This year the city authorities have allocated for Meteosat 1 and 9 may and 12 June 293 million roubles, that is, the dispersal of the clouds in one holiday costs 97.6 million rubles. Last year this amount was $ 86.5 million.
In 2016, the Russia Day was rainy. Aircraft flew 13 sorties, however, to completely exclude precipitation over the capital failed.
Victory Day in 2017, the aircraft flew 17 sorties — the weather was very unfavorable, the width of the precipitation zone was about 250 km. flying in the clouds was accompanied by turbulence and icing. Takeoff and landing under difficult weather conditions.
Experts managed to disable the rain during the military parade on red square, however, due to the high density of clouds has been canceled the most spectacular part — the passage of air. In the afternoon the weather improved.