Helicopter Landing Sites in London
Thank you everyone for your helpful replies. I will certainly be looking into the Vanguard option as it sounds ideal for the docklands. Such a shame we can't use London City. J
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I asked about the Vanguard at work yesterday.
Nobody (inc LCY tower!) new where it was exactly - the radar returns disappear nr the IOD reporting point!!
Good luck
Nobody (inc LCY tower!) new where it was exactly - the radar returns disappear nr the IOD reporting point!!
Good luck
I saw the "H" for this place when I was up in Docklands at a customer site.
Check Streetmap for a geographical location - the site AFAIR was just not (or was it south) of the WestFerry roundabout - more or less smack central in the map.
If there's one of you bods flying down that way today, can you have a quick look ?
Check Streetmap for a geographical location - the site AFAIR was just not (or was it south) of the WestFerry roundabout - more or less smack central in the map.
If there's one of you bods flying down that way today, can you have a quick look ?
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Vanguard Holdings Ltd, 188 West Ferry Road, Millwall, London, E14 8RZ
Grid Ref: 372786, situated on the north side of the River Thames on the south-west edge of the Isle of Dogs, within ½ mile of Canary Wharf
08:00 – 20:00 hours on Weekdays and Saturdays – 09:00 – 16:00 hours on Sundays
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Mondays to Fridays, 0900 hours - 1730 hours, call Vanguard Head Office on: Telephone 020 8846 8000
Grid Ref: 372786, situated on the north side of the River Thames on the south-west edge of the Isle of Dogs, within ½ mile of Canary Wharf
08:00 – 20:00 hours on Weekdays and Saturdays – 09:00 – 16:00 hours on Sundays
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Mondays to Fridays, 0900 hours - 1730 hours, call Vanguard Head Office on: Telephone 020 8846 8000
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AlanM,
I know this wasn't the point of the thread but a big "hats off" to you and your very patient colleagues on 132.7 and 119.9 who have helped me in "WW" up and down H4 more than once.
OK, enough grovelling, now back to the thread. Interesting one, this... Anyone know who G-TATS belongs to? It lands in the grounds of Battersea Power Station and I spied it from the train this morning. Even better - anyone fly it? It's an AS350/355, not sure which.
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I know this wasn't the point of the thread but a big "hats off" to you and your very patient colleagues on 132.7 and 119.9 who have helped me in "WW" up and down H4 more than once.
OK, enough grovelling, now back to the thread. Interesting one, this... Anyone know who G-TATS belongs to? It lands in the grounds of Battersea Power Station and I spied it from the train this morning. Even better - anyone fly it? It's an AS350/355, not sure which.
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Shocking hijacking of a thread - but thanks!! 
Air Medina fly in fairly regularly - S/S as said. Battersea love working traffic they don't get paid for!!!
Any spare sewats on WW????
Air Medina fly in fairly regularly - S/S as said. Battersea love working traffic they don't get paid for!!!
Any spare sewats on WW????
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AlanM,
I concur with DB about the good job you and your colleagues do for us rotary jocks. Ta!
We must have spoken on the airwaves often, I fly one of the larger machines usually asking for non-standard arrivals and departures to and from EGLW.
BTW, what "avoids" NW of EGLK? They are only posh folks with a telephone. Only joking!
I concur with DB about the good job you and your colleagues do for us rotary jocks. Ta!
We must have spoken on the airwaves often, I fly one of the larger machines usually asking for non-standard arrivals and departures to and from EGLW.
BTW, what "avoids" NW of EGLK? They are only posh folks with a telephone. Only joking!
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I am gonna come in here more often!
ShyT - oddly enough - I am just out of the avoids!! (nr St Neots school) I only get bounced when you recover to the Bush from the NW - and you are aiming for my house/chalk pits!!
Which S76 do you fly then? We must have spoken at some stage!
PM me if you don't feel brave enough to say - have a few Q's for you guys!
ShyT - oddly enough - I am just out of the avoids!! (nr St Neots school) I only get bounced when you recover to the Bush from the NW - and you are aiming for my house/chalk pits!!
Which S76 do you fly then? We must have spoken at some stage!
PM me if you don't feel brave enough to say - have a few Q's for you guys!
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Alan,
Check your pm.
Check your pm.
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Northolt - Landings
I've dropped an R44 into Northolt once in a hurry when I got caught in a Thunderstorm. Shame was they were closed though.
Having some RAF MP come at you asking questions about why you landed there with his hand on his hip, just above his revolver was a little un-nerving, especially to the three ladies I had with me.
Took my particulars ( ) and I left when it stopped throwing cats an dogs down. Never heard anything after that.
Bet my files in now well and truely marked at '5 and SB.
Simon
Having some RAF MP come at you asking questions about why you landed there with his hand on his hip, just above his revolver was a little un-nerving, especially to the three ladies I had with me.
Took my particulars (
) and I left when it stopped throwing cats an dogs down. Never heard anything after that.Bet my files in now well and truely marked at '5 and SB.
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Vanguard HLS
The HLS is in the "Specified Area" so you will need a Rule 5(1)(c)(ii) Permission from the boys in the Belgrano - or else you may be in trouble. You can get the Permission for single engine hels.
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I think I know what you mean, but as you are allowed on the river in a single, why cant you just fly into the Vanguard without speaking to the men from Gatwick?
I thought that the Vanguard was right next to the Thames?
I thought that the Vanguard was right next to the Thames?
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London Helilanes
Rule 5(1)(c)(i) states that you may not fly over a congested area below 1500 ft above the highest object within 600 m of the helicopter without permission from the Belgrano in writing.
H4, which Vanguard is on, has a height of 2000 ft - so no problem with the rule for overflying the site on H4.
Why, I hear you cry, therefore can I fly along other Helilanes below this height? The answer lies in Rule 5(2)(a)(i) & (ii) which say that the provisions of Rule 5(1)(c)(i) do not apply when flying on a route notified or SVFR. Both these apply to the Helilanes in the London Zone.
So - no problem in landing? Sadly yes as by reading further into Rule 5(2)(a) you find that the waiver that the provisions do not apply is invalid if the helo is landing or taking off.
Phew!!
The upshot is that you DO need a Belgrano permission to land at Vanguard.
Don't shoot me - I am only the bearer of the bad news you did not want to hear.
H4, which Vanguard is on, has a height of 2000 ft - so no problem with the rule for overflying the site on H4.
Why, I hear you cry, therefore can I fly along other Helilanes below this height? The answer lies in Rule 5(2)(a)(i) & (ii) which say that the provisions of Rule 5(1)(c)(i) do not apply when flying on a route notified or SVFR. Both these apply to the Helilanes in the London Zone.
So - no problem in landing? Sadly yes as by reading further into Rule 5(2)(a) you find that the waiver that the provisions do not apply is invalid if the helo is landing or taking off.
Phew!!
The upshot is that you DO need a Belgrano permission to land at Vanguard.
Don't shoot me - I am only the bearer of the bad news you did not want to hear.
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G-TATS (AS350BA) Air Medina Ltd. = Marquis of Milford Haven? Potential developer of Battersea Power Station into a tourist attraction\residential development along with someone from the far east I believe (don't quote me). White "H" to south of Power Station regularly used by TATS, not sure that it's open to other heli's though.
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I've sent Twin Squirrels into Battersea Powerstation quite a few times recently for a client who knows the owner, we have tried to use it on other occasions by asking the client to ask the owner and every time the owner has come back with a big fat no, so unfortunately I think unless you are doing specific business with or for the owner you can safely cross the Powerstation off your list.