One crisp morning back in April, I think, the day that Heathrow got all clogged up on the ground (discussed in another thread), there was a rare 40 minutes or so from about 08:30 when the Director was offering pilots the option of visual approaches. He was enticing them with the phrase "can you see Heathrow...?".
I'm happy to report that fights broke out on flightdecks ("MINE! no MINE!! I'm the Captain dammit!"), cabin crew danced the conga in the aisles and hats were tossed high into the air. Well, maybe I exaggerate. But on 120.4, every pilot sounded very keen to take the opportunity. And that's rather reassuring to an occasional pax like me.
