Yes I remember receiving hundreds of "Land After" instructions and I'm pretty sure I never had to go-around from one...Although that instruction was always at "Captain's discretion" and was not allowed to be issued in poor visibilty. One thing that Heathrow had over most other airports was the special "Ground Vectoring Radar", (that white dome thing on top of the tower)...They could use that to vector you on the turn off until you got the green taxiway centre line lights in sight. Even back in the Vanguard days I can remember being vectored with that radar all the way to our stand in thick fog (before jetways).cstorey wrote:Kit and Peter - it's 15 years since I used to go to EGLL, but even then, to accommodate the amount of traffic they had, at peak times it was not that uncommon to be given a minimum approach speed of 160 kts IAS and a "land after " instruction, so that there were two a/c on the runway at once. Often, these were coupled with an " earliest turn off" instruction . Plainly this cannot be done safely in poor vis, hence the vast reduction in landing capacity in Cat III conditions
I don't remember what the separation was for a CAT III inbound stream but think it was more like 4 miles than 6 miles, but I might well be wrong on that. I suppose it could have been 6 miles, in which case nothing has changed :redface:
