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Default Plan to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street scrapped
On 13/06/2018 12:02, wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:31:18 +0100
John Williamson wrote:
Where the 25 mile approach path is not available, pilots have a low
opinion of the safety of using the airport, and the old Hong Kong

Someone better tell London City where final approach starts over southwark
all of 6 miles away when landing from the west. Admittedly its smaller planes
but they're still airliners, not cessnas.

Puddle jumpers. Now try the same trick with a 747 or Airbus 380, which
are the size of plane that is needed for a decent hub and long distance
airport to survive. Technical differences include the approach glide
path descent angle for city airport being 6 degrees as against the
normal 3 degrees for Heathrow and other major airports. A big jet can't
approach at 6 degrees safely anywhere near full load, as they tend to
stall and fall out of the sky.

Pilots don't like City airport much, either.



If you lived in north london like I do you'd see airliners on approach and
departure from heathrow passing each other with minimum vertical and almost
no horizontal seperation every day.

You do, of course have the radar records to back this up. However, it
does make the point that airspace is already very crowded over London
and the South East of England, and adding an extra airport would only
make things worse.


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Tciao for Now!

John.
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