Apache over London

[Roco84]

While walking through Whitehall last Wednesday I thought I heard the unmistakable thud of a Chinook, looked up and there she was! Then the next morning I stepped out of my hotel only to be greeted by an Apache Longbow flying at about 1000ft along the Thames past the HP before doing a slow circuit around Vauxhall Bridge and disappearing off to the West. As a native of Belfast I'm used to seeing the odd military chopper in the sky but I wasn't aware of much of that business of the capital. Does anyone know why they would've been there? I was thinking arms fair as I don't think the Apache would be as effective against uk terrorist threats as it is against the Taleban!

[HEDP]

Apache pilots have to be just as familiar as any other pilot with flying in complex airspace; London airspace affords that aspect of their training. The Thames is a recognised helicopter route within that airspace and sometimes it is just the quickest way from A to B.

Just training, thats as frought as it gets,

HEDP

[wg13_dummy]

It was doing a recce for its next target.





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