Ah FL245 beat me to it again!
Fun days..........................4 pax from Islay to EGLL, total cost of charter £2400 for the priviledge! Landing fees circa £700, funny enough I think they called it a 'take off fee' or 'departure fee', strange. Have to be careful though on the fuel planning as they don't stock Avgas! I remember planning to position out to Luton for gas and had to wait six hours for a slot!
As Heathrow Director says it's not a problem for them, BUT, it does help if you don't assume that they'll know you can't maintain 160kts to 4dme and you'll touchdown at about 90kts! Lesson learnt first time in.
I also recall doing transplant flights in the 310 both daytime and night-time when they would always accept you, I even got a runway change at 8 am to save time on the taxying! They were landing 09L and the corporate handling agent was beside the threshold of 27L, I asked London control 60nm out to request it and then spent several minutes getting closer and closer not knowing which one I was going to get.............hey presto 27L; got a few of the big boys worried wondering what they had just heard on the RT! Can't speak highly enough of the controllers down there, excellent, the way they can just integrate a tiddler into the 'heavy' picture like they were doing it all day!
Oh FL245, remember the dual radio failure just as we locked onto 27L that day?
Bloody good fun landing there if you ask for permission to land long.............just float and float and float and then think it's looking a little short so put it on only to find you've still got a couple of thousand feet left!
Departure was funny too. Sitting at the hold in a 310, number three behind two speedbird 747's and with a 777 behind me! Remember being told to 'line up and wait 09L' then the 777 was told 'After the Cessna 310, line up and wait 09L', his reply was 'After the ermmm...........propellor airplane in front (and below!!!) line up and wait 09L'!!!!
Ah, memories.
PP