Landing a small plane at LHR/LGW
 

If I had the good fortune to be a pilot with my own small plane, what obstacles would there be to flying to LHR or LGW while the runways are underused?

A380-sized landing fees? Inadequate equipment on plane?

How about recreational flying not being allowed at the moment?

If there is a loophole and it can be done, this should be exploited with no stone left unturned. For a small craft pilot, the experience of a lifetime!

https://www.aurora.nats.co.uk/htmlAI...l#EGLL-AD-2.20
para (g) is a starting point?

Timing might me tight, but I did not research the consequence of this. https://www.aurora.nats.co.uk/htmlAI...018-en-GB.html

As long as you get PPR probably nothing, having said that currently there is a notam out for Heathrow saying they don't accept practice approaches. So one has been trying it..

People are doing it here at Sydney and Melbourne in Pipers and Cessnas. Eye watering landing fees but a once in a lifetime op!

Good point, well made.

Whatever you do, from personal experience, to avoid giving yourself a heart attack, ask how much it would cost to land there.

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What on earth do you mean by loophole?????

People are dying because of some selfish individuals disobeying the law - the parks in London were crowded last weekend. And you are promoting finding some way to break the law or get round it and risk killing someone

Come to my hospital and I will show you the consequences

Recreational flying must stop

How about keeping current might save pilot's lifes?
Close to the place I live general aviation pilot's created a standby voluntary pilots hotline to have aircraft on call if any authority, hospital and such might need some urgent (free to them) medical flight to transport stuff back and forth. (Transporting patients is formally excluded.)

List of charges.

https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam...f_Use_2020.pdf

At a glance it would seem to be a minimum noise charge of £2,726.70 (aircraft under 16 tons), plus £25.47 parking fees for every 15mins, or part thereof, after the first 30mins which are free. Plus VAT.

before recreational GA was categorised as a non-essential activity, I did ask but was politely turned away.

A few people managed low go-arounds during the ash cloud 10 years ago but circumstances were very different.

On a normal day (if you could get a slot) expect a few grand in landing and compulsory handling charges.

Cool down, lost in translation. Meant to say, if by coincidence there is a legal way under today's circumstances, do it. Comparing light aircraft activity to full parks shows perhaps up to 3 orders of magnitude difference, that's not a fair call.

I understand your frustration and would feel the same in your shoes, under the impression someone was trying to get around the protocols in place.

The full opposite is true for myself. Not only we are protecting the healthy, but also the sick by keeping the rise in figures on short(er) leash and thus giving the medics a chance to cope, preserving at least some health sector capacity to people with serious non-COVID conditions, possibly even more lethal. Most of the things that are still allowed in the UK are banned under State Emergency Law here back home!

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What part of STAY AT HOME don't you understand?

Wasn't the op's question hypothetical?

Would have thought that all the AOC employed commercial aircraft sat on the ground would be desperate for this kind of work

It was a purely hypothetical question as I am not a pilot and do not own a plane, but it might become less hypothetical if there are a few days between all restrictions being lifted and airports becoming busy again.

I'm not a pilot, don't have a plane, don't have £2-3000 to throw at HAL (+VAT) and would not particularly enjoy the approach and departure as a passenger.

It might not be a hypothetical question if, once all restrictions are lifted, the airports remain mostly unused for a while.

My flight school required a flight into KDFW during the commercial syllabus, and that was in normal times. Atc hated us, but they were required let us in.

Apologies if I mis-read the OP.
Must be getting to me, Week 3 out of 12 for me, and watching those idiots on TV who think sunbathing qualifies as exercise, or having a beach barbecue is social distancing...........................

Landed one time at Washington National Airport in a Piper Archer. Slot required because it was after the controllers strike.
No landing fee, no parking fee either. Only in America.