Sunday, September 28th, 2003
Time: 3pm EDT (1900Z)
ID | Elevation | Latitude | Longitude | ATIS Freq. |
EGLL | +80 | N51° 28.60' | W0° 27.60' | 123.90 |
Runway | Length | Surface | ILS/LOC Freq. | ILS ID |
9L | 12802 | Asphalt | 110.30 | IAA |
27R | 12802 | Asphalt | 110.30 | IRR |
5 | 6450 | Asphalt | ****** | *** |
23 | 6450 | Asphalt | ****** | *** |
9R | 12000 | Asphalt | 109.50 | IBB |
27L | 12000 | Asphalt | 109.50 | ILL |
The destination for the SimPilot Forum's twentieth Flight Rally is Heathrow International Airport in London, United Kingdom!
Heathrow International Airport started life as a tented village in 1946 serving
only 18 destinations, with a handful of airlines making just 9,000 flights a
year. The airport is named after the village or hamlet of Heathrow, located
approximately where Terminal 3 now stands.
The first departure took place on January 1st, 1946 bound for Buenos Aires via Lisbon, which was its first refuelling stop on a long haul flight to open up Britain's first air link with South America.
In 2000-2001 the airport handled around 64 million passengers making it by far the busiest international airport in the world, with over 90 airlines serving around 160 destinations worldwide, operating an average of 1,250 flights per day.
There is scenery for this airport in Microsoft's "Flight Simulator" version 5.1 to 2003, Lago's "Airline Simulator", Nomissoft's "Airline Simulator 2", BAO's "Europe 1 Scenery Pack" which can be used with Microsoft's "Flight Simulator 5.0", subLogic's "Europe Scenery Disk" which can be used with Microsoft's "Flight Simulator 4.0b" and subLogic's "Airline Transport Pilot", and subLogic's "Great Britain Scenery Disk" which can be used with subLogic's "Flight" and "Flight Light".
Download the file EGLL.GIF in Files Section 3 (Navigation) for an aeronautical chart of the area, and EGLL09L.GIF in Files Section 3 (Navigation) for an instrument approach plate of ILS Runway 9L. Current aviation weather for the airport can be found at NOAA's Web Site on the Internet.
Please join us on Sunday, September 28th for the twentieth SimPilot Forum Flight Rally, and make sure to visit Conference Room 5 (Fly Online/FS Rallies) after your flight to let us know all about it!
Download RALLIES.TXT or RALLIES.HTM from Files Section 11 (Fly Online/FS Rallies) for detailed information on the SimPilot Forum Flight Rallies. If you need any further info or help be sure to post a message in Message Section 11 (Fly Online/FS Rallies). We'll be looking forward to seeing you there!
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