Why are chinooks flying over london

It will be boxes and boxes of the new 50p ready for the Westminster street party. Only Chinooks could manage that weight of dispair. Yeah, see them quite a lot from my office new Blackfriars bridge. They were following the M3 motorway as they often seem to do , then disappeared off into the distance over Amazingstoke at about 3.

AH from Wattisham transiting south to Salisbury Plain area will go through lanes and vice versa. See them over New Malden quite a lot. You guys should ride Thetford between 4 and 6pm during the summer. Loads of military activity on a nightly basis. Fast jets, whirlybirds and all sorts of US Air Force stuff.

Justifying the defence budget and make the populous feel safe at the same time. Win win. Loved flying in Chinooks even had a emercency landing in one!! 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. 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.

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