London helilane access
Just curious - why is Kew such a bottleneck approaching from the North when Heathrow are on easterlies compared to westerlies. I'd have thought that aircraft on the ILS are lower at the same position than those in the climb, so is it because the spacing is much tighter on take off? Or someother reason?
Also I was recently cleared recently to Gutteridge but warned of a delay at Kew of 30 minutes and advised that if I flew the reciprocal from City (given my destination it was obvious it was a sight seeing routing) there wouldn't be a delay. Was that on the assumption I would route say to Battersea then return eastwards avoiding Kew? Didn't ask as I decided to route direct to destination given the delays and didn't want to block the freq.
Not complaining! Just interested.
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