HD,
Thanks for the compliment
Being one of the continent, I have a question after reading this thread. I fly into LHR a lot, but I can`t for the life of me remember reading anything about an official minimum holding fuel required when operating into LHR. It is mentioned here more then once, but could someone please give me a reference? Would be interesting.
We started to use a new flightplanning system in our company this week. It basically takes all the "hidden" extra fuel away from us and provides us with the bare legal minimum. The deskdrivers call it "clean fuel policy". It uses the JAR approved method of taking a statistical amount of extra fuel, with a minimum of 5 minutes.
So you see that any reference to an official publication stating a minimum of 20 minutes holding fuel into LHR would be interesting.
Thanks