Making a mockery of London's EGR 160 ?
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Making a mockery of London's EGR 160 ?
At about 0530 this morning in London, my attention was drawn to the skies. A beautiful sight - a hot air balloon drifting at low level across EGR 160. My guesstimate is that it lifted somewhere in Hammersmith/Fulham and proceeded on a light breeze towards the eastern side of the capital.
A gorgeous, lovely thing to see.
And how wonderful that the balloon seems not to suffer the same strictures as single-engine aircraft trying to operate in the same are ?
Did this require an Exemption ? What procedures are in placed to ensure safe separation from LHR landing traffic ? And how are the public on the ground protected ?
Was it a twin burner or a single ?
A gorgeous, lovely thing to see.
And how wonderful that the balloon seems not to suffer the same strictures as single-engine aircraft trying to operate in the same are ?
Did this require an Exemption ? What procedures are in placed to ensure safe separation from LHR landing traffic ? And how are the public on the ground protected ?
Was it a twin burner or a single ?
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What procedures are in placed to ensure safe separation from LHR landing traffic ?
(i.e. it is given a squawk, identified and given a "not above xxxx feet restriction)
Been done many times - and discussed on here loads.
