![]() Also, the clouds in the second image are obviously fake: they're clearly large clouds but being below the roof-line of the Palace of Westminster means they'd have to be between ground level and about 100ft (30m) altitude. More generally, the Palace of Westminster is in Restricted Area R157 where flights below 1400 feet without special advance permission are forbidden.īoth images look like digital artwork rather than photos to me.Īs Henning's answer makes clear, the images in the question are composites and passenger planes don't fly that low over central London. Some approaches to runways 27R/27L at Heathrow pass close to Westminster too, but at an altitude of 3000 feet. The charted approaches to LCY specify staying at an altitude of 2000 feet (which is more than 6 times the height of the clock tower) until just west of the Isle of Dogs. That would put them lower than several of the skyscrapers in the City which they need to pass over to get to the runway. The right-hand one apparently shows the top of the tower above the horizon, meaning that the vantage point would be even lower.įlights landing at London City Airport's runway 09 pass quite close to the Palace of Westminster at low altitudes - see for example AZ216 on Flightradar24 today - but not that low. On the left-hand one the distance between the top of the tower and the horizon is much less than the height of the tower, meaning that if this is a photograph, it would be taken from a height of about 500 feet. No, airliners do not fly low enough that those can be photos. ![]()
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