Hi Chris.
Not so much active research, more too much time working / living (weekdays)
in the area.
While it's true that aircraft land / take off into wind, at Heathrow they
are constrained by a change ends twice a day rule, and a swap of left and
right runways as well. This is done to spread the noise around, but since
the residents of Slough have less clout than the residents of Kensington,
the prevailing South Westerly is used as an excuse to schedule the busy
times for landings over the city and takeoffs over Berkshire. Can change
when HM is in residence. Since the prevailing winds aren't strong, it
doesn't make much difference.
When the winds get strong, life gets interesting. sometimes they use the
cross runway which is seriously shorter than the other two. I worked in an
office where it seemed like the planes were falling off the roof past the
window when they did that!
Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Photographing the Concorde in the UK before it's too
late....
That is an amazing load of information Julian. It looks as if you have
done quite a bit of research ... ;-)
Aircraft normally land into wind (reduces landing speed, landing run,
tyre wear etc... ) and takeoff into wind (reduces takeoff run, tyre
wear). The prevailing winds are southwesterly so that would normally
explain. I would have been very surprised if it had not used the
easterly runways last week when we had easterlies.
Chris
On Monday, Jul 21, 2003, at 19:40 Europe/London,
julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Concorde generally is routed to take - off and land westbound. They
> aren't supposed to do this, but they do. It breaks the fair sharing of
> noise regulations.
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