Here's What Your Pilot's Thinking When They're Landing A Plane Sideways In A Storm
Key insight for everyone hooked to the livestream of planes landing at Heathrow Airport.
If you're watching Storm Bert and the resulting "fun" at Heathrow with the crosswinds, here's an article I wrote for the Huffington Post answering some of the more common questions we get asked...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/plane-...
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When the film is about to start but Heathrow is go-around galore
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Here in East Berkshire we had rain, then a moment of white rain, and then a lot of normal rain.
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Is this a regular issue? ๐
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Well there you go! No need to go anywhere next year ๐
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I love snow and am absolutely okay with having a complete whiteout for the next 4 months.
As long as itโs proper snow and not that slush nonsense
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Sheffield!
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Cloudsurfing at sunrise the other morning, as we cleared a solid layer at about FL220
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Iโve decided Iโm not binning off The Other Place just yet, but will keep both and see how the tide changes. Nice to have options though!
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Keflavik today was cold. Like, blankets during the turnaround levels of cold.
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Iceland today. No plane in it though, soz.
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Fingers crossed enough people come across to make it worth whileโฆ
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Honestly, seeing a bunch of followerless accounts being abusive and in one case actually discriminatory because somebody said they're moving from Site A to Site B pretty much summed up everything that was wrong with The Other Place. Last straw on the camels back for me.
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Seeing people post their wordle scores. We are so back.
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Hello world!
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