I LOVE coming into Heathrow. I'm always so excited to be in London and to see the river, the palace, and then flying low over the rooftops with their chimney pots and all the green, it's just wonderful.
I will never forget the first time I flew into London. It was extremely cloudy and suddenly we broke through the cloud and there below me was the Thames with the bridges and St Paul’s Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament. I had tears in my eyes. I had arrived.
Years ago I spent 3 months backpacking in India, and although I had a wonderful time, I had tears streaming down my face watching all this as we came in to Heathrow! It was about 6:30am on a beautiful summer morning and you could really sense London starting a new day. I couldn't wait to get on the ground and be a part of it all again!
The best and most beautiful Heathrow arrival I have witnessed! Thanks for sharing. that amazing Broken Spectre of the aircraft on the cloud was stunning!
I remember flying over London before landing at Heathrow. It was a beautiful August day with not a cloud in the sky. It was an emotional experience seeing some of London's landmarks including the houses of parliament, Big Ben and Tower Bridge for the first time just a few hundred metres down.Unforgettable!
@@SpeccyMan Yes you are right. Unfortunately most tourists flying into London for the first time wouldn't know that. Still it was an unforgettable flight.
@@johnjkiwi7818, I'm a Brit who now lives in Canada and have flown into Heathrow a couple of times on return trips and it really is amazing following the Thames as you come in to land and seeing the major landmarks.
My first ever trip to the UK was in 2003, magic long haul trip from New Zealand, out across the USA, coming across Britain from the north we had a clear trip all the way down to HR, biggest thrill was when the air NZ Jumbo banked right over the tower of London we were in the left side of the aircraft so could just see the river Thames and London eye great trip, love seeing these videos thanks makes us yearn to return again, last trip was 2015 and before that 2011 both up through Europe one via Bankok and the other Dubai
I’m from the US, I’ve only flown into London twice, one at Heathrow, the other at Gatwick……Heathrow is a heavily traveled airport and we had to circle around 30 minutes before landing…that was my first time and it was so exciting bc it was my first time to England, I was 46 at the time and can remember a line that “John Lennon” said in “Hard Days Night” a reporter asked Lennon: how did you get here (US) Lennon: took a left at Greenland……lol….
Back when I was working I was a regular on the BA Shuttle to Heathrow, so done that countless times. I always tried to get a RHS window seat just for that view! On a clear day you could follow the entire route from Manchester - Knutsford, Crewe - Stoke - Birmingham - M40 - Chilterns, Wembley and then that turn onto long final for the Heathrow westerly runways.
London arrivals have generally always been spectacular. Right down the Thames over all the famous sites one has heard about. Sitting on the right hand side often is best.
I was blessed with two trips to Europe a few years ago. On one of the trips I landed at Heathrow. This video really brought back some wonderful memories. Those pilots do a fantastic job!
Takes me back to when I lived and worked in London. Lived in South Ealing which ion the Heathrow approach.We used to picnic in the park and watch the planes line up off the stack. You could see 4 in a line. I also worked on the construction of the Canary Wharf tower .. Happy days
Enjoyed, that, thanks ! And congrats to you on keeping the camera straight and steady all the way in. I've done that arrival many times, and after a long trip it's always nice to see London again.
Great video - thanks for sharing. I've only flown into Heathrow twice and remember very little of it as I was 7 years old at the time. All I remember was how BROWN the fields were on approach (it was the middle of the 1976 drought). The second, time the approach was from the west and I remember seeing the burnt out shell of Windsor Castle (it was 1992 just after the fire, before they started restoration works). I generally flew into Gatwick or Stanstead when I was flying to London - nowhere near as picturesque as you don't fly directly over the city itself. The best bit of this video is the Brocken Spectre shadow of the plane as it goes through the tin cloud layer. This shadow with a halo around it is sometimes seen in foggy conditions on the ground and the strange thing about this phenomenon is that, if you see your shadow as you stand as part of a group of people, you are always in the middle leading to some people years ago to believe it was a supernatural/religious sign. See how the halo clearly circles where the camera was in the plane, just behind the wing!
Had a similar landing from Hong Kong in April 1990. Saw the royal Albert Hall amongst other landmarks. Yes the right hand side of the plane is usually best. ✈️
3:14 That's called the "aviator's rainbow". My first flight from a De Havilland T Mk10 Chipmunk was in 1987 from RAF Woodvale. The Flight Lieutenant told me about this. It's where the silhouette of the aircraft is projected on a cloud and you'll see a circular rainbow around the silhouette.
Great video. I never tire of flying, or watching planes at Heathrow. Sometimes on a cold rainy day I take the children to Cafe Nero at T4, just to sit in the window and view the planes taking off & landing. Great view from there. Better than the grandstand.
I clearly remember flying along the Thames past the Houses of Parliament on that same approach some years ago but without the low cloud. 4 years ago I made a similar film of our long low approach to Toronto’s Lester Pearson airport which I filmed. I will try to post it on here some day. But what topped it all was flying along the snow covered coast of Greenland in clear blue weather on our way to Colorado from Heathrow with the cliffs and fjords standing out like on a map. We flew over Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man on the way. So glad I had a starboard window seat and camera handy👍
Fantastic vid, thanks! Loved the whole thing. Covered my whole London commute back in the day. The best was flying over Kew. I’ve stayed/lived there a few times and I was delighted to see “There’s my flat!”, “There’s my other flat!” 4K makes a difference, seeing to that level of detail, along with the steady camerawork. Well done! From the other side, maybe someone was standing at my old kitchen window and looked up in time to see this plane coming in to land. I’d watch the planes as I did dishes, the traffic was continuous. The BA heavies are an impressive sight. But the sound of the planes was a constant background noise to be sure, but then so were the Tube and above ground trains a few blocks in the other direction. (I wonder how quiet it all became when things shut down due to COVID….another topic.)
@4:26, just above the progress bar for the video, by the road junction, is the Taskmaster house. You didn't need to know this, but I thought I'd say it anyway 😁
Um...yeah. About that "zero turbulence" thing you got going on here. WHY...can't I get this on my flights????? Huh????? :) Literally have never seen a more smooth landing on TH-cam. That was awesome.
Spectacular video. 3 airports I used to love landing at. Heathrow Singapore And the old Hong Kong airport. All for different reasons. Heathrow, whether it’s day or night, is always spectacular, more so on a nice clear day. Singapore, as you are coming into land, you can see just how clean Singapore is. Old Hong Kong airport. On the approach, flying in over The Peak, then the rooftop of the flats below you. It used to be a bit of a sharper drop down onto the runway, this was one airport where you could not get it wrong, otherwise you was likely to end up in the drink at the end of the runway.
First foreign holiday in 81. First ever flight was out of the London and the second was back in with this landing. Now scroll back to about 7:20 on this vid and then imagine the engines gunning the aircraft shaking as it takes avoiding action from the plane in front that hadn’t cleared the runway in front of us! People were screaming, crying and praying all around. My mate was sat rigid in his seat staring ahead and nobody seemed impressed by my naive laughing.🤣 The pilot was beer cool and the best thing was that we had to circle all the way round London again and so we got this view twice!
I remember flying in and seeing the 2 buildings in the City back in 2009. It looked so tiny from that high up. Haven't been ona place since. And where I live I can see the planes making their ways towards Heathrow & City Airport.
I worked most of my days not far from the Tower of London, and minute after minute I would see airliners like this fly over the City using the Tower as a reference point, then flying on down to Heathrow, following the line of the Thames, in a matter of minutes. Glad when the days of Concorde were finished - the noise of that thing flying above was enough to wake the dead.
They use radar vectors to the ILS localiser as a reference to position on final, not items on the ground like the Tower of London. Concorde was amazing - you have no soul!
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I LOVE coming into Heathrow. I'm always so excited to be in London and to see the river, the palace, and then flying low over the rooftops with their chimney pots and all the green, it's just wonderful.
I will never forget the first time I flew into London. It was extremely cloudy and suddenly we broke through the cloud and there below me was the Thames with the bridges and St Paul’s Cathedral and the Houses of Parliament. I had tears in my eyes. I had arrived.
A bit over dramatic 💀
A bit over dramatic 💀
Lol
Real
Loved seeing Concorde on the tarmac there. Beautiful bird.
Its not a TARMAC its a RUNWAY 😂
@@oneglitch3543 no?
@@oneglitch3543it's a stand
@@oneglitch3543 - no, the official term for the area that Concorde is standing is called an 'Apron'.
@@showmokeThat’s not an official term, as in it’s not prescribed by a public office.
I felt like i was actually in that aircraft sitting by that window looking out at that view! I miss London and I miss flying.
Years ago I spent 3 months backpacking in India, and although I had a wonderful time, I had tears streaming down my face watching all this as we came in to Heathrow! It was about 6:30am on a beautiful summer morning and you could really sense London starting a new day. I couldn't wait to get on the ground and be a part of it all again!
That's lovely. You can't beat the Big Smoke. 👍🛫🛬
The best and most beautiful Heathrow arrival I have witnessed! Thanks for sharing. that amazing Broken Spectre of the aircraft on the cloud was stunning!
I remember flying over London before landing at Heathrow. It was a beautiful August day with not a cloud in the sky.
It was an emotional experience seeing some of London's landmarks including the houses of parliament, Big Ben and Tower
Bridge for the first time just a few hundred metres down.Unforgettable!
It is impossible to see Big Ben from an aeroplane since it is the name of the bell, not the clock!
@@SpeccyMan Mr Pedantic showing off. A person from abroad isn't going to call it by any other name, why pull him up on that in such a smart arsed way?
@@SpeccyMan Yes you are right. Unfortunately most tourists flying into London for the first time wouldn't know that.
Still it was an unforgettable flight.
@@SpeccyMan knob
@@johnjkiwi7818, I'm a Brit who now lives in Canada and have flown into Heathrow a couple of times on return trips and it really is amazing following the Thames as you come in to land and seeing the major landmarks.
My first ever trip to the UK was in 2003, magic long haul trip from New Zealand, out across the USA, coming across Britain from the north we had a clear trip all the way down to HR, biggest thrill was when the air NZ Jumbo banked right over the tower of London we were in the left side of the aircraft so could just see the river Thames and London eye great trip, love seeing these videos thanks makes us yearn to return again, last trip was 2015 and before that 2011 both up through Europe one via Bankok and the other Dubai
I’m from the US, I’ve only flown into London twice, one at Heathrow, the other at Gatwick……Heathrow is a heavily traveled airport and we had to circle around 30 minutes before landing…that was my first time and it was so exciting bc it was my first time to England, I was 46 at the time and can remember a line that “John Lennon” said in “Hard Days Night” a reporter asked Lennon: how did you get here (US) Lennon:
took a left at Greenland……lol….
3:13 ...nice capture of a "Glory" as well. I've been on this approach a few times. Great views of central London.
Great video at 2160p 4K
Back when I was working I was a regular on the BA Shuttle to Heathrow, so done that countless times. I always tried to get a RHS window seat just for that view! On a clear day you could follow the entire route from Manchester - Knutsford, Crewe - Stoke - Birmingham - M40 - Chilterns, Wembley and then that turn onto long final for the Heathrow westerly runways.
My first flight and first international flight into Heathrow last month was a dream. I felt that dip,roll and turn just like in the video. Loved this!
London arrivals have generally always been spectacular. Right down the Thames over all the famous sites one has heard about. Sitting on the right hand side often is best.
@@andyrob3259 approach to London City airport at night is a beautiful sight
I was blessed with two trips to Europe a few years ago. On one of the trips I landed at Heathrow. This video really brought back some wonderful memories. Those pilots do a fantastic job!
Like me Ronnie in 2019. Daniel from Rio de Janeiro.
7:21 Always good to see Concorde still sitting majestically on the boundary as you land! Oh how I miss that beautiful bird.
Good landing, fantastic shadow of the aircraft on the ⛅️ clouds 😍🇬🇧
How wonderful - I'll never forget the thrill of coming in to land - I was amazed at the size of the Thames - what a monster of a river
Usually flown in from Australia or North America at some god awful time in the morning or night into fog or cloud so this video is good to see !
What a smooth landing .... Thanks for the video.... Also loved the shadow of the plane on the clouds
Takes me back to when I lived and worked in London. Lived in South Ealing which ion the Heathrow approach.We used to picnic in the park and watch the planes line up off the stack. You could see 4 in a line. I also worked on the construction of the Canary Wharf tower .. Happy days
7:21 just a Concorde casually sitting there.
Eye 👁️👁️Spy: 😊 Found "Concord' too! 👆👍
Enjoyed, that, thanks ! And congrats to you on keeping the camera straight and steady all the way in. I've done that arrival many times, and after a long trip it's always nice to see London again.
Great video - thanks for sharing. I've only flown into Heathrow twice and remember very little of it as I was 7 years old at the time. All I remember was how BROWN the fields were on approach (it was the middle of the 1976 drought). The second, time the approach was from the west and I remember seeing the burnt out shell of Windsor Castle (it was 1992 just after the fire, before they started restoration works).
I generally flew into Gatwick or Stanstead when I was flying to London - nowhere near as picturesque as you don't fly directly over the city itself.
The best bit of this video is the Brocken Spectre shadow of the plane as it goes through the tin cloud layer. This shadow with a halo around it is sometimes seen in foggy conditions on the ground and the strange thing about this phenomenon is that, if you see your shadow as you stand as part of a group of people, you are always in the middle leading to some people years ago to believe it was a supernatural/religious sign. See how the halo clearly circles where the camera was in the plane, just behind the wing!
You were fortunate to fly over Windsor as winds are usually from the west and therefore approach to LHR is more commonly from the east .
The cloud shadows were awesome 😎.
I'll be flying into that airport in two months and I can't wait.
One of the best aviation videos I've seen. Well done.
Thanks a lot!
Great video. I loved every second of it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes, flying into London is so crazy cool.
i must say im not a big fan of a passenger view , but wow , you nailed it , stunning , bravo , wish we had this tech in 65
Thanks Stephen, glad you enjoyed it!
Had a similar landing from Hong Kong in April 1990. Saw the royal Albert Hall amongst other landmarks. Yes the right hand side of the plane is usually best. ✈️
What a smooth landing! Hats off to the crew in the cockpit!
That was nice, and as someone commented earlier fun to see the 'glory' off to the side.
aww fantastic, I was born and brought up under the Heathrow flightpath and this is just pure nostalgia for me, love it
Thanks for sharing this amazing video. How great will it be when we can all freely travel again!
What an awesome video, loved the silhouette of the plane in the clouds. Followed by a beauty of a landing.
Did it in night time even lower with about 6 passes as we waited 15 years ago, it was totally spectacular!!
3:14 That's called the "aviator's rainbow". My first flight from a De Havilland T Mk10 Chipmunk was in 1987 from RAF Woodvale.
The Flight Lieutenant told me about this. It's where the silhouette of the aircraft is projected on a cloud and you'll see a circular rainbow around the silhouette.
RAF Woodvale is/was just down the road from me. I'm originally from Southport although I live in Canada now.
Actually, aviators are more pretentious than you think. We call it a "Glory".
Beautiful video, absolutely mesmerising and top quality. I loved it. Thanks.
Thanks a lot Paul!
Excxellent, most enjoyable, being originally from South London. Great how the reflection of the plane showed up on the clouds. Thanks for sharing,
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video. I never tire of flying, or watching planes at Heathrow. Sometimes on a cold rainy day I take the children to Cafe Nero at T4, just to sit in the window and view the planes taking off & landing. Great view from there. Better than the grandstand.
Cracking video guys really enjoyed that
Beautiful glide slope and landing, love it
The aircraft rainbow shadow is exceptional. Thanks.
Love that Concord under the wing @ 7:21
Always nice coming in over London 😘
Really good video and well taken. Thanks for sharing this. Best place to be as well. Great views of the landscape and the flying control surfaces.
I see that whenever I am coming back from Morocco its quite surprising how much greenery there is and how close everything is to each other
3:13-3:30 Great photo opportunity, aircraft reflection in the clouds.
Great camera work! Very stable. @2:41 and following: The 'Sun-Dog' with the aircraft shadow is one of the best captures I've seen in aviation videos.
Thank you very much!
I clearly remember flying along the Thames past the Houses of Parliament on that same approach some years ago but without the low cloud.
4 years ago I made a similar film of our long low approach to Toronto’s Lester Pearson airport which I filmed. I will try to post it on here some day.
But what topped it all was flying along the snow covered coast of Greenland in clear blue weather on our way to Colorado from Heathrow with the cliffs and fjords standing out like on a map. We flew over Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man on the way. So glad I had a starboard window seat and camera handy👍
Not sure how this was recorded, but kudos for being so still! And that was an amazing landing by the pilot!!
stunning vid! good job!
Thanks a lot!
Nice of them to have Moss from the IT crowd as ther captain. 1:40
Fantastic vid, thanks! Loved the whole thing. Covered my whole London commute back in the day. The best was flying over Kew. I’ve stayed/lived there a few times and I was delighted to see “There’s my flat!”, “There’s my other flat!” 4K makes a difference, seeing to that level of detail, along with the steady camerawork. Well done!
From the other side, maybe someone was standing at my old kitchen window and looked up in time to see this plane coming in to land. I’d watch the planes as I did dishes, the traffic was continuous. The BA heavies are an impressive sight. But the sound of the planes was a constant background noise to be sure, but then so were the Tube and above ground trains a few blocks in the other direction.
(I wonder how quiet it all became when things shut down due to COVID….another topic.)
The plane is so stable. What a flight
Awesome for sure , Thanks Airliners Live
@4:26, just above the progress bar for the video, by the road junction, is the Taskmaster house. You didn't need to know this, but I thought I'd say it anyway 😁
Broken Spectre on the clouds. Excellent.
Dont matter how many times you fly, one minute you up above the clouds and then your down, such a strange feeling.
Wow! Brilliant video.
Thank you very much!
Nicely filmed. Beautiful day for that approach to 27L.
Many thanks!
Fantastic video ✈️
Um...yeah. About that "zero turbulence" thing you got going on here. WHY...can't I get this on my flights????? Huh????? :)
Literally have never seen a more smooth landing on TH-cam. That was awesome.
It happened to me on November 28 2019 coming from Munich. My destiny: Rio de Janeiro, my homeland. Thanks!
You have a Very Steady hand, superb picturisation - and thankfully the weather was Good
Spectacular video.
3 airports I used to love landing at.
Heathrow
Singapore
And the old Hong Kong airport.
All for different reasons.
Heathrow, whether it’s day or night, is always spectacular, more so on a nice clear day.
Singapore, as you are coming into land, you can see just how clean Singapore is.
Old Hong Kong airport. On the approach, flying in over The Peak, then the rooftop of the flats below you. It used to be a bit of a sharper drop down onto the runway, this was one airport where you could not get it wrong, otherwise you was likely to end up in the drink at the end of the runway.
You might love landing at Kai Tak, the pilots not so much. You know about the chekcerboard I assume.
“We liked the aeroplanes, thank you for putting the aeroplanes on” - Dominic, aged 2 😍
Awesome views of London ✈️ 🙏
First foreign holiday in 81. First ever flight was out of the London and the second was back in with this landing.
Now scroll back to about 7:20 on this vid and then imagine the engines gunning the aircraft shaking as it takes avoiding action from the plane in front that hadn’t cleared the runway in front of us! People were screaming, crying and praying all around. My mate was sat rigid in his seat staring ahead and nobody seemed impressed by my naive laughing.🤣
The pilot was beer cool and the best thing was that we had to circle all the way round London again and so we got this view twice!
Excellent.👍😊🛫✈️🇨🇮
Stunning!
That was an incredibly neat landing .
Superb ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Went straight over my house. It's always interesting to see cabin views from aircraft I heard coming over.
Super Smooth!
I remember flying in and seeing the 2 buildings in the City back in 2009. It looked so tiny from that high up. Haven't been ona place since. And where I live I can see the planes making their ways towards Heathrow & City Airport.
I worked most of my days not far from the Tower of London, and minute after minute I would see airliners like this fly over the City using the Tower as a reference point, then flying on down to Heathrow, following the line of the Thames, in a matter of minutes. Glad when the days of Concorde were finished - the noise of that thing flying above was enough to wake the dead.
They use radar vectors to the ILS localiser as a reference to position on final, not items on the ground like the Tower of London. Concorde was amazing - you have no soul!
"Glad when the days of Concorde were finished" - sacrilege!
lol
Nice that at 07.24 you can still see Concord 🇬🇧🇬🇧
A peaceful descent
wow that was a perfect landing, well done to the pilot :)
Great clip thank you for putting it on....going onto flight sim now to re do it ....
Great vid!
Beautiful video, thanks very much for this ✈️🛩🛬🛫
Great video! Looks like a lot of new buildings going up near the Hounslow Central Asda.
Brilliant!! I hope to be able to do this from Miami in March.
Is this recent if so are you going live at Heathrow to catch the A380s?
Thank you i loved this.
Dam MSFS has had a big scenery update
Beautiful !
London - the Office of the World! Great video!
Thanks! 😃
I love this. Breathtaking.
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it :)
Wow!! People on an aeroplane flying in from somewhere far away. Those were the days!!
Nice views of Stamford Bridge and Craven Cottage
This looks great on a large 4k monitor, very well done.
Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it
This is really cool! Amazing that London almost has 9 million inhabitants.
24 million if its entire urbanised area is included.
I had no idea Heathrow is that close to London! It’s three times as far by car!
and it's six times as far if you go by tube.
AWSOME view more please big thanks to planes fans
Nice! How did you fix the cam? No vibrations at all.
Very relaxing! Nice.