I believe this incident was the trigger for the 3000 feet cleared altitude seperate readback when you get your clearance from LCY ground. The procedure nowadays at LCY is that you get the clearance and read that back. Then you get your stop altitude and QNH and you have to read that back as well. Before this we'd never had this. It's on the plates anyway.
It's annoying for us regulars in LCY but I can totally see the point why they implemented this. Loads of business jets at LCY and you could be turning and nearly leveling off at 3000ft with LHR inbounds only 1000ft above. Sometimes quite impressive. The other week we ljust evelled off at 3000ft and had 2x A380's above us at 4000ft inbound for 27R at LHR.
