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a flight time to EDI of 1hr 20
SOU to EDI on the Dash is regularly around this length, or a few mins less, so not that surprising. Plenty of padding for LHR holding (southbound) and queuing to depart (northbound) one would suspect.
a flight time to EDI of 1hr 20
SOU to EDI on the Dash is regularly around this length, or a few mins less, so not that surprising. Plenty of padding for LHR holding (southbound) and queuing to depart (northbound) one would suspect.
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Quite. If you ever spend time looking at FlightRadar24, flights from places like Brussels can do the journey in about half the allocated time if they are lucky or at an off-peak time and get 'straight in' - I'm sure there must be a technical term for this - yet at busy times there are planes doing three or four rotations in the queue before landing.
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Back in the 1970s, the printed BEA timetable always said LHR-EDI took 70 minutes; as we taxied out the captain came on the PA and said that out flight time would be 60 minutes; and we were in the air for 50 minutes.
Last edited by Dairyground; 3rd Apr 2017 at 16:54. Reason: Fixing typo
Scheduled (timetable) block time will almost always be less than the actual flight time, not least because the latter doesn't include the time taken for pushback, taxi out and taxi in.
And in the 70s the LHR/EDI flight time was often much less than planned on those occasions where BEA substituted a Trident instead of the scheduled Vanguard.
And in the 70s the LHR/EDI flight time was often much less than planned on those occasions where BEA substituted a Trident instead of the scheduled Vanguard.
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Heathrow T3 closed due to security alert
Heathrow T3 has been closed due to a security alert. Armed police officers searching aircraft.
Heathrow Terminal 3 flights suspended due to 'security issue' | Metro News
Heathrow Terminal 3 flights suspended due to 'security issue' | Metro News
Getting ready to play 'Airport Bingo':-
- pets reunited,
- Mr/Mrs/Ms Angry,
- minor medic.emergency
- 'you're holding up the flight'.
- add your own cliches
Extra points for continuity gaffes...
- pets reunited,
- Mr/Mrs/Ms Angry,
- minor medic.emergency
- 'you're holding up the flight'.
- add your own cliches
Extra points for continuity gaffes...
Paxing All Over The World
- Lost Child (the camera crew get extra brownie points if it's holding a fluffy animal)
- Someone madly repacking their overweight luggage
- Accusations that no one told them they could not bring <fill in the blank> on board
- Delays on the Tube/M4/M25 but they are still not allowed to run down the taxiway after the aircraft
Within the first couple of minutes, we learned that "Heathrow is operating at capacity" and then, almost in the same breath, that "numbers [of planes] are rising". Go figure.
Somewhat worryingly, we were then told (by a fireman) that "aviation fuel burns with twice the calorific value of petrol" (it doesn't) and a bit later in the programme that "every plane needs an engine run to check its oil levels before takeoff". Hmmm.
But by far the best part was two airport policemen meeting an incoming flight from Turkey to arrest a wanted woman.
TK clearly decided that they didn't want TV viewers thinking they regularly transported such shady characters, so we ended up with this:
