Originally Posted by
treadigraph
A breezy Heathrow and Gatters are getting a few go arounds this evening with some interesting holds being flown.
Strange - windy in my back garden but doesn't seem that bad...
London City of course really hit. 25 knots from the SW doesn't sound too bad but people have ended up at Stansted, Birmingham, etc. Birmingham is a bit surprising because their runway orientation is absolutely at right angles to the wind, which is the same there as here. Meanwhile BA from Dusseldorf got within a few hundred feet of the runway, went around ... and went back to Dusseldorf.