08-10-2006, 10:35 AM
Here's a METAR -METeorological Aerodrome Report- for EGLL
EGLL 101320Z 30007KT 270V340 9999 SCT035 21/09 Q1015
I'll translate
EGLL London Heathrow
101320Z 10th of August, 1320 UTC..from about an hour ago pretty much:
30007KT 270V340 Wind, from 300* @ 7 knots, Variable 270-340*. In other words, westerlies
9999 Unlimited visibilitity or CAVOK, more than 9999 metres horizontal
SCT035 Scattered clouds @ 3500 AGL
21/09 Temp/dew point in Celcius [no chance of rain]
Q1015 QNH or barometric pressure in millibars, a slight high pressure in other words as the standard is 1013 at 15*C
In other words, a beautiful summer day in London Town.
And now..the alleged plot i heard on CNN...that they were planning to blow up airliners over London [?]
Well...if the winds are/were from the west then runways 27L & R would be in use making this an impossibility. All flights to the Amerikas would depart on RWY27L and vectored to Compton as it is the SID [Standard Instrument Departure] used for departures headed for all of the American Continent. Then Shannon Ireland..then Great Circle Nav Tracks across the Atlantic.
There's no way you could blow up an airliner above London in a situation like the one today over there, as all traffic bound to the USA in this case would be taking off in completely the opposite direction and away from London in an almost straight line. Period.
Hours later the story changed of course...and now Fox news was saying the plan was to blow them all up allegedly at their arrival points in north amerika. Well...blowing up an airliner almost riding on fumes after crossing the ditch might be tragic for those on board but would be far from spectacular given you would only get falling debree and pieces here and there, the damage they could cause to a city and its people beneath would be minimal in comparison to being loaded with say, 380.000 lbs of kerosene in a Boeing 747.
I'm not buying into any of this.
I think this is being done to clamp down on air travel worldwide -even more- and to make sure that people stay put and think twice about flying anywhere. And of course to keep their phony war on terror alive and well.
Travelling nowadays is already a nightmare anyway.
The only thing that bothers me still is that they went to code red - meaning an attack is imminent.
I never saw this before. Let's just hope that an "oops one got away unfortunately" doesn't happen.
EGLL 101320Z 30007KT 270V340 9999 SCT035 21/09 Q1015
I'll translate
EGLL London Heathrow
101320Z 10th of August, 1320 UTC..from about an hour ago pretty much:
30007KT 270V340 Wind, from 300* @ 7 knots, Variable 270-340*. In other words, westerlies
9999 Unlimited visibilitity or CAVOK, more than 9999 metres horizontal
SCT035 Scattered clouds @ 3500 AGL
21/09 Temp/dew point in Celcius [no chance of rain]
Q1015 QNH or barometric pressure in millibars, a slight high pressure in other words as the standard is 1013 at 15*C
In other words, a beautiful summer day in London Town.
And now..the alleged plot i heard on CNN...that they were planning to blow up airliners over London [?]
Well...if the winds are/were from the west then runways 27L & R would be in use making this an impossibility. All flights to the Amerikas would depart on RWY27L and vectored to Compton as it is the SID [Standard Instrument Departure] used for departures headed for all of the American Continent. Then Shannon Ireland..then Great Circle Nav Tracks across the Atlantic.
There's no way you could blow up an airliner above London in a situation like the one today over there, as all traffic bound to the USA in this case would be taking off in completely the opposite direction and away from London in an almost straight line. Period.
Hours later the story changed of course...and now Fox news was saying the plan was to blow them all up allegedly at their arrival points in north amerika. Well...blowing up an airliner almost riding on fumes after crossing the ditch might be tragic for those on board but would be far from spectacular given you would only get falling debree and pieces here and there, the damage they could cause to a city and its people beneath would be minimal in comparison to being loaded with say, 380.000 lbs of kerosene in a Boeing 747.
I'm not buying into any of this.
I think this is being done to clamp down on air travel worldwide -even more- and to make sure that people stay put and think twice about flying anywhere. And of course to keep their phony war on terror alive and well.
Travelling nowadays is already a nightmare anyway.
The only thing that bothers me still is that they went to code red - meaning an attack is imminent.
I never saw this before. Let's just hope that an "oops one got away unfortunately" doesn't happen.
