Remembrance Sunday landings at LHR
FX Guru
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Greenwich
Age: 67
Posts: 900
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Remembrance Sunday landings at LHR
Just out of curiosity. I have seen a post elsewhere from someone who was at a Remembrance Sunday service in Richmond today who says no planes went overhead during the silence from 1100-1102.
Does ATC halt LHR arrivals during this time? It must be pretty hard to co-ordinate (maybe not).
Or is the post I saw simply not correct and Richmond was not on the flight path?
TIA for any information.
Does ATC halt LHR arrivals during this time? It must be pretty hard to co-ordinate (maybe not).
Or is the post I saw simply not correct and Richmond was not on the flight path?
TIA for any information.
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: LHR/EGLL
Age: 45
Posts: 4,392
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
Age: 79
Posts: 8,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
<<The entire event is orchestrated with military precision and is something for which NATS takes the utmost care to get right>>
TDM..... yeah, one flew an orbit round the Cenotaph at 11am!
TDM..... yeah, one flew an orbit round the Cenotaph at 11am!
I was at Manchester Airport in 1995 at the fiftieth anniversary of the end of WW2. During the early evening there was an ATC transmission on all frequencies which went something like this:
"Manchester broadcast. There will now be two minutes' RT silence in remembrance of the ending of WW2. We request all stations to observe. Out."
Most of the airfield lights dimmed and all surface traffic - aircraft and vehicles - stopped. I think there were two aircraft on either intermediate or final approach. They might have carried out a two-minute orbit. It was a little eerie but a real privilege to witness 100% observance.
"Manchester broadcast. There will now be two minutes' RT silence in remembrance of the ending of WW2. We request all stations to observe. Out."
Most of the airfield lights dimmed and all surface traffic - aircraft and vehicles - stopped. I think there were two aircraft on either intermediate or final approach. They might have carried out a two-minute orbit. It was a little eerie but a real privilege to witness 100% observance.
