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Old 30th Sep 2009, 15:33
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Del Prado
 
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When pretty much every minute of every hour from 6am to 10pm every single aircraft is going down the approach at the minimum allowed spacing from the one ahead, wake vortex category is safety critical information.

Is this perhaps the reason it's not done in the rest of europe? Do Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt consistently apply minimum vortex spacing as Heathrow does?
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