At least a couple of hours, even on a very short flight. Unsurprisingly there’s a lot of rules about this, and pilots are required to declare a “Mayday” emergency if they will land with less than 30 … (View Post)

All correct. However, pilots coming from the East into the UK might have nominated Heathrow as their destination and Manchester as their ‘alternate’. So if the whole of the London Radar area is diffi… (View Post)

This is what “London Radar” looks like on a map. (View Post)

“London Radar” is the name of the airspace over Southern England, all controlled from Swanick, near Southampton, which is where the failure occurred”. (View Post)

One step up from arresting chefs and electricians heading to/from work carrying knives in public, of which there was a spate a few years back. (View Post)