Emma1974

Was there an airprox over Central London at 1705 local?Very low level.

I was asked by a friend down there if I could find out if such an event happened today?He claimed to see two jets same direction but turning sharply.
I said I would endeavour to find out,starting here.I also pointed out that they could easily have been at different levels,etc,etc.

Anyone hear of anything?

Ta

HEATHROW DIRECTOR

Emma... if i had £1 for every phone I received when I was the Approach Control Supervisor at Heathrow from people making similar claims I'd be a rich man.

It's nigh on impossible for a human to distinguish the vertical distance between aircraft in flight. The different sizes of aircraft involved, the weather conditions, direction of flight, viewing angle, etc., all make it very difficult, if not impossible to determine an "airprox". Maybe two jets were heading in the same direction..... but what is a "sharp" turn??

Forget it..

autothrottle

Second that!

Working yesterday Pm.....no airprox.

Vercingetorix

Emms
I second what EGLL Director says.
Look eastward to the sky over London of an evening, preferably from Primrose Hill of a summer's eve with a bottle of chilled bubbles, and you will see the convergence of all EGLL traffic sequencing into the arrival stream for westerlys. They all look like that they are in close combat, and that's before one opens the bubbles.

Emma1974

Cheers guys.

You say everything I told him!!