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Old Jun 14, 2014 | 4:56 pm
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Originally Posted by jbfield
During easterly winds, the LCY arrivals will fly westward, past Canary Wharf (south) and only perform the turn onto final (to head east) around Greenwich area. They then fly east back to LCY on finals, but then flying round the back (north) of Canary Wharf which might hide them from your view?

If you go up Greenwich hill on a clear day you can quite clearly see what they're doing. They'd probably be about 4000ft at that point, so not quite the 2000ft you mention. It can seem quite a fare way west of LCY before they turn though.
I think its generally a fair bit wider.

I fly in regularly and I'd put the 09 arrival route as Bluewater-Bromley-Crystal Palace (right turn)-London Bridge-Wapping then straight in.

If you're in the City, watching it swing behind the Shard is pretty impressive.
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