prop doing go arounds lhr after10pm
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hi all can someone tell me if there was a prop doing go rounds at heathrow last night after 22.00=24.00hrs?damm thing kept me awake just wanted to know what is was doing thanks.....
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did not sound heavy so think it must of been small aircraft,just fed up with the thing going round on a sunday night while trying to get some zeds.by the way i love aircrafts and im not having a pop at anyone.....
I was wondering that meself last night, and came to the conclusion that it was a calibration flight. Here's another one, today monday 22nd Nov, a very low flying Piper Aztec (or similar) doing circuits over SE London, rear left side hatch open and, i assume a cameraman/photographer going about his business. G-A*ZL or similar was the registration using a mark 1 eyeball. Any info, just curious 
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I've seen a Seneca doing that a year or two back SHJ. Had a blue fin and came from Stapleford I believe.
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About 6:20pm last night a very low light aircraft woke up South Croydon/Sanderstead with a very loud yyyeeeerroooooowwwww! Sounded rather like an Extra 300 pulling out of a loop, though from what I saw of the nav lights as I looked up it appeared to be turning left fairly tightly and at some speed. Last I saw of it was the anti-collision beacon heading towards Biggin Hill. Anyone know what it was?
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About 6:20pm last night a very low light aircraft woke up South Croydon/Sanderstead with a very loud yyyeeeerroooooowwwww! Sounded rather like an Extra 300 pulling out of a loop, though from what I saw of the nav lights as I looked up it appeared to be turning left fairly tightly and at some speed. Last I saw of it was the anti-collision beacon heading towards Biggin Hill. Anyone know what it was?
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<<About 6:20pm last night a very low light aircraft woke up South Croydon/Sanderstead>>
Jeeezzz.... you lot go to bed early!
There's a lot of low-level flying around London for all sorts of reasons. At one time, estate agents and property developers were chartering helicopters to snoop around looking at potential developments. Various mapping agencies also use aeroplanes and helicopters. There are ambulance, police and military helicopter flights all day around London too.
Jeeezzz.... you lot go to bed early!
There's a lot of low-level flying around London for all sorts of reasons. At one time, estate agents and property developers were chartering helicopters to snoop around looking at potential developments. Various mapping agencies also use aeroplanes and helicopters. There are ambulance, police and military helicopter flights all day around London too.
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Place was bloody quiet, hardly anyone out and about. I was walking up the hill towards Sanderstead, daydreaming and was quite startled by the sudden noise...
Yeah I'm aware of all the usual traffic - lots of daytime VFR keeping south of London CTR and north of the gliding activity at Kenley - but the last time I heard a light aircraft make quite that much racket over Purley, it was a Pitts doing aerobatics many years ago (illegally I should have thought, given how built up the place is!).
Yeah I'm aware of all the usual traffic - lots of daytime VFR keeping south of London CTR and north of the gliding activity at Kenley - but the last time I heard a light aircraft make quite that much racket over Purley, it was a Pitts doing aerobatics many years ago (illegally I should have thought, given how built up the place is!).
I'll tac this one onto this thread rather than start another. This morning, approx 11am a most unusual (Burt Rutan?) twin (aerostar?), the one with the propellers behind the wing like a biz-jet droning like a bee at approx 5000ft 
over London heading in a NNW direction to land i would suspect at one of the western outlying airfields close to London. Did anyone else see it on this glorious, but freezing day ?
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over London heading in a NNW direction to land i would suspect at one of the western outlying airfields close to London. Did anyone else see it on this glorious, but freezing day ?SHJ
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Think you are thinking of the Beech Starship, nearly all of which have been scrapped 
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Most likely a Piaggio Avanti which is quite a loud beast. Or Ivan Shaw's TwinEze if that's still around!
. Most likely a Piaggio Avanti which is quite a loud beast. Or Ivan Shaw's TwinEze if that's still around!
I would say then that it was a Piaggio Avanti and it was loud, although pleasant somehow. Altitude was a gestimate based on other traffic that passes over regularly. It might have been lower even, and the direction would have put it in line for Northolt, but hopping it over the arrivals into LHR. I guess that it was coming in from the continent rather than a UK flight.
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Wasn't dark blue underneath was it? I've seen one like that on several occasions in the past. Usually routing west-ish from Biggin and somewhere between 5000' and 10000' I'd have thought. Not sure I've ever seen another "on the hoof" as it were, other than at airshows.
I remember it being mostly white underneath, although it might have had another darker colour, my brian is too addled at the moment 
I've never seen one outside airshows, so thought it might have been an 'experimental' Rutan design toddling about on a mission. Are there many of them in Europe ? Avantis i mean!
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I've never seen one outside airshows, so thought it might have been an 'experimental' Rutan design toddling about on a mission. Are there many of them in Europe ? Avantis i mean!SHJ
