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Heathrow Tower
Secondly, aircraft usually struggle to both descend and slow down at the same time. So even though it may be quiet and you leave Lambourne (The North-east holding stack) at 8000ft, there might not be enough distance if you turned straight for final approach to allow the aircraft to be on what we call a 'stable approach'.
Thank you for the interesting reply (as ever). So Lambourne is "my" main stack, which is just north of Watford. There are some other stacks that I've had the recent pleasure of exploring, what are their names? The two that come to mind are over Braintree in the north west, and over Chartwell in the south east. Do they have names too?