Originally Posted by
portmanteau
atcos could be juggling with two parallel approach paths in use at the same time which should make life interesting for them.
I'd have though that was stating the obvious, though I'm not sure ATC would agree with the term "juggling".
The alternative - building a third runway but only being able to use one at a time for landing - would be pretty pointless, wouldn't it?
Originally Posted by
Failed_Scopie
The Government do not want to build a third runway at LHR, but they could probably get away with extending the northern runway
Davies put the final nail in the coffin of that hair-brained idea, which
AFAIK had no supporters at all apart from the promoters of the scheme. HAL, CAA and NATS were, at best, lukewarm about the concept and community groups were dead against it as it would have meant a complete end to alternation.