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Old 16th May 2003 | 04:25
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odmedod
 
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One thing I found disturbing -- apart from the nagging feeling that "they're all actors" -- was the Heathrow Director's on-screen display.

I would have expected the view to be conventional, with North at the top. With 09 in use, aircraft would then be approaching and taking off from right to left.

As shown in this "documentary", everything was travelling from left to right.

Well, you know how you are programmed to believe everything you see on the telly: I assumed I'd misheard the controller somewhere along the line and they weren't using 09 at all. But this made it somewhat surprising when the flaming wreckage landed on Hounslow, when there must surely have been equally deserving places in the general direction of Slough....

Does the display have North at the top?

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