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  2. Heathrow arrival stacks - Wikipedia

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    Inbound aircraft to London Heathrow Airport typically follow one of a number of Standard Arrival Routes (STARs The STARs each terminate at one of four different RNAV waypoints (co-located with VOR navigational aids), and these also define four "stacks" [1] where aircraft can be held, if necessary, until they are cleared to begin their approach to land.

  3. Elrey Borge Jeppesen - Wikipedia

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    Jeppesen was the first to design en-route procedures, let-down procedures, approach procedures, and the all-important, missed-approach procedure. [ citation needed ] If the weather were bad and visibility dropped to zero, if the Jeppesen Airway Manual had a missed approach procedure for that particular airport, the pilot could use it to ...

  4. Heathrow Airport - Wikipedia

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    London Heathrow Airport (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL) [6] colloquially known as Heathrow (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /) [7] and named London Airport until 1966, is the primary and largest international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

  5. Airfield traffic pattern - Wikipedia

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    An Airbus A330-300 of Turkish Airlines on short final to Heathrow Airport, immediately before landing.. An airfield traffic pattern is a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing while maintaining visual contact with the airfield.

  6. Approach plate - Wikipedia

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    An approach plate for the ILS or LOC approach to runway 14L at Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany. Approach plates (or, more formally, instrument approach procedure charts) are the printed or digital charts of instrument approach procedures that pilots use to fly instrument approaches during instrument flight rules (IFR) operations.

  7. Aeronautical chart - Wikipedia

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    An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers. Using these charts and other tools, pilots are able to determine their position, safe altitude, best route to a destination, navigation aids along the way, alternative landing areas in case of an in-flight emergency, and other useful ...

  8. Localizer type directional aid - Wikipedia

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    An LDA approach also is designed with a normal course width, which is typically 3 to 6 degrees. (At each "edge-of-course", commonly 1.5 or 3 degrees left and right of course, the transmitted signal is created in such a way as to ensure full-scale CDI needle deflection at and beyond these edges, so the pilot will never falsely believe they are ...

  9. Airports of London - Wikipedia

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    The metropolitan area of London, England, United Kingdom, is served by six international airports and several smaller airports.Together, these airports constitute the busiest airport system in the world by passenger numbers and the second-busiest by aircraft movements.