Why chinooks over london

Used to see them and the blackhawk down choppers flying down thames and bearing towards and beyond the Palace. Used to think they were flying VIPs between the military and commercial airports.

Probably nonsense! I thought the Chinook you see pretty regularly going down the Thames was the PM off to an airfield in Kent?? But they quite often drive, easier to manage for protection details. I live a 9 iron from the river and this certainly seems to be the case. My father used to tell a story about flights in Germany where the key navigation tool was a road atlas. They have to follow the river, the whole of London is controlled airspace, dropping out of heli-lanes requires flightplans and prior approval.

One of the slates is posted above, lots of rules governing it. The river Severn is used as a flight corridor too, can see the BZZ flights on flightradar usually peel off it between Bridgnorth and Ironbridge heading North East to exercises over the North Sea. They do a drill where they land in one of the parks in Brixton at night too which is exciting if you happen to be passing. Apparently practicing getting casualties from a terror incident to St Georges if the roads are blocked.

This topic has 29 replies, 26 voices, and was last updated 1 year ago by Northwind. Viewing 31 posts - 1 through 31 of 31 total. So exciting. Could it be a case for Mr James Bond? Team is in town filming the new movie Spectre. Olaf Haitink was concerned. After an investigation, the Standard can reveal that these helicopters are on RAF business. This was routine training, taking advantage of the good weather to do some urban practice.

TVM [ta very much] for the lift! If you hang around, you may even see a landing. So what are we to make of this military move? London is a good place to train because flying here is complex — there are lots of other vehicles in the airspace and all the buildings. Often have Chinooks and Apaches flying over us in Essex in the direction of London.

QuadCamCapri posts months. So 21, posts months. Gameface 16, posts 48 months. ReallyReallyGood 1, posts months. We had one doing laps of Rochester airfield on Monday, not sure if they were visiting BAE systems or just on a jolly. Unusual to see them down this way. Have the bloody things constantly overhead at home, guess I shouldn't have moved near to Benson. Lots of low level stuff and freight practice, the most freaky thing is watching them at night spot lighting and following a train heading towards Didcot.

Total loss 2, posts months. You'd be surprised how often we get Chinook's fly across the LHR corridor, usually, they hang around just off the LHR perimeter until cleared by HATC to shoot across the east end maintenance area at low level.