Heathrow Fly in & Out and Turnaround
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 Published On May 19, 2022

The video documents with a commentary the flight experience and gives passengers an understanding.
London Heathrow Airport is one of the world’s busiest airports it is located 23 km west of central London.
120 airlines fly to 316 direct destinations in 98 countries. There are four terminals, 180 parking stands and two parallel runways, one runway is used for take-off and the other for landings. Airplanes can take-off every minute and land every 90 seconds. Around 650 airplanes and 201,000 passengers arrive and depart every day.
The flight approach was from the east over London to runway 27R.
The airplane started its descent 20 minutes out, at an angle of 3 degrees to the horizontal.
Between 13 and 4 miles out the flaps on the trailing edge of the wings are progressively extended. The flaps slide rearwards level for a distance prior to hinging downwards. Flaps allow the airplane to land at a lower speed and to slow down faster on the runway. At five miles out, the landing gear was lowered.
The airplane touched down on the runway at 140 knots, the air brakes were deployed by raising the hinged panels on the top of the wings to cause drag. Airplanes land on the main wheels firstly followed by the nose wheel.
The airplane vacated the runway and taxied to a parking stand outside terminal 2.
When the airplane parked outside Terminal 2, Chocks were place to the front and back of the wheels, the air bridge was extended, temporary electricity supply was connected so the engines could be switched off. We disembarked through the front left door and passed through the baggage reclaim hall before entering the arrivals area.

Airports are divided into two areas, Landside and Airside. The landside area is open to the public, while access to the airside area is tightly controlled.

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