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Volume 53, Issue 12
1 December 1981
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Review Article| December 01 1981

Movement in Category III Conditions

CAPTAIN P.J. HUNT
CAPTAIN P.J. HUNT
Head of Technical and Training Flight Crew, British Airways
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1981
Aircraft Engineering (1981) 53 (12): 14–17.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035772

The 30th January 1981 saw Heathrow Airport London covered in dense fog. The Runway Visual Range on Runway 28L (Fig. 1), down to 125m at times, did not exceed 200m until 1800 hrs and 400m until 0830 on the 31st.

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