Mt Sakurajima & Kagoshima airport view from the control tower (26 Apr 10)

Kagoshima Airport Mt Sakurajima Location of Kagoshima airport & Mt Sakurajima Distance ; 25 km Direction 200 VOR/DME Final approach fix at 3,100ft ILS R/W 34 Final approach fix at 3,100 ft

Number of Volcanic eruption at Mt Sakurajima latest 5 years Japan Met Ofc

Number of Volcanic eruption at Mt Sakurajima in a year Calendar year Total Adjacent one year Total ,056

Number of days of occurrence wind direction between 180 to 200 ( )

1 ; line width 0.1 Magnified volcanic ash 5 Nov 09 at the airport

Time line Information flow of volcanic activity ( e.g. 27 May 10 ) Eruption NOTAM ATIS AEIS 15:37 15:40 15:46 15:48 15:49 15:55 15:58 V A Observation Report V A Advisory SIGMET WX officeCAB

Hight of the volcanic ash column Number of occurrences Altitude reaching Through Apr 09 to Mar 10

Viewability of marking sign

Number of aircrafts deviated from the volcanic ash Total 360 aircrafts (121 eruptions) Total 251 aircrafts (100 eruptions)

Deviation from the ash when visibility more than 3,200m Kagoshima Airport Mt Sakurajima VOR/A RNAV R/W16 Ash flow RNAV R/W16

Kagoshima Airport Mt Sakurajima SID for R/W34 10,000ft+

SID for R/W16 Kagoshima Airport Mt Sakurajima 7-8,000ft

Road sweeper collects ash Fire car wash ash away and settled

Main brush Dust separator Type of road sweeper Recirculating air T ; Adapted at Kagoshima airport Vacuum Suction Type ; Most typical & last used Broom Type ; Using in the Kagoshima city

Correcting to the manual Doc#9691 Term is explained about Mt Sakurajima in Japan Sentence is while the eruptions are often of an explosive type, accompanied by explosion earthquakes and atmospheric shock waves, the usually only last a few hours with columns reach in a maximum height of 3km. Comment is; climbing velocity of the column is 10 to 20m/s, so it can reach to 3,000m in a few minutes.

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