Heathrow-2
When BA operated LHR - INV and ABZ back in the 70's and 80's I seem to recall that it was usually a Trident - Is my memory right...?
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I suspect that, like LHR/EDI, those two routes were operated by the Vanguard at the beginning of the 1970s, with the Trident gradually taking over later.
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In the early 70's LHR to ABZ and INV were Viscount operated. In about 1976 Aberdeen services were operated by Trident 1E's, formerly from Northeast Airlines. These types, of which there were only 3 in the whole BA Trident fleet were much more suitable for the short runway at Aberdeen than the standard Trident 1C. The Boeing 737-200 then took over in early 80's followed by B737-400 in the 90's. As far as I can recall, LHR-INV continued with Viscounts until the closure of most UK and Ireland routes in about 1982 when Dan Air took on the route. Following their acquisition by BA, B737-400 were introduced until BA stopped the route altogether.
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Thanks - Ah yes now I remember the OneE's on the Bravo's next to our DC-9's and Viscounts
G-ASWU was always around...
In the evening the last flights were our MME & LPL and BA's NCL and ABZ all around 2030
G-ASWU was always around...
In the evening the last flights were our MME & LPL and BA's NCL and ABZ all around 2030
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A/c seem to be holding much less and even avoiding S-bends over London.
As for S-bends, there are plenty of those visible on the flight trackers currently. They will always be more apparent when LHR is on westerlies, for reasons that will be obvious if you look at the locations of the holds in relation to the airport.
And yet, standing in a playground in Barnes this afternoon I would say they were lining up with the runway over Clapham rather than almost Ilford, in one case actually over Barnes.
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And recategorisation of wake vortex minima which is a global initiative.
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Last edited by DaveReidUK; 22nd Feb 2019 at 20:16.
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https://webtrak.emsbk.com/lhr4
and compare them with the norm at other times. WebTrak has a year's history available.
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The data for Heathrow originates, as you might expect, from ATC (i.e. NATS), but the airport itself publishes a month-by-month summary of average and maximum times spent in the hold in its annual Airspace and Noise Performance reports here.
The most recent figures I've seen (for 2017) are an average of 4.2 minutes holding per flight over the year and a maximum of around 50 minutes. The 2018 report will be out some time in the Summer.
On that basis, almost every accident only just happens. Spearing an aeroplane into the ground barely penetrates by more than a few metres, so even that wouldn't crash "by much to be fair" either!
Thank goodness the Tenerife collision only happened by a few metres - imagine how badly that could have turned out if they had really hit big time...
Thank goodness the Tenerife collision only happened by a few metres - imagine how badly that could have turned out if they had really hit big time...