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Inbound aircraft to London Heathrow Airport typically follow one of a number of Standard Arrival Routes (STARs The STARs each terminate at one of four different RNAV waypoints (co-located with VOR navigational aids), and these also define four "stacks" [1] where aircraft can be held, if necessary, until they are cleared to begin their approach to land.
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Heathrow Airport (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /), [6] called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), [7] and now known as London Heathrow, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
In September 2016, Aireon and FlightAware announced a partnership [29] to provide this global space-based ADS-B data to airlines for flight tracking of their fleets and, in response to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, for compliance with the ICAO Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) requirement for airlines to track their fleets ...
Flight tracking enables travellers as well as those picking up travellers after a flight to know whether a flight has landed or is on schedule, for example to determine whether it is time to go to the airport. Aircraft carry ADS-B transponders, which transmit information such as the aircraft ID, GPS position, and altitude as radio signals.
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Aircraft departing Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton (to the north or west only), and Stansted mostly depart on a free-flow principle: the radar controllers do not release each individual flight for departure, they just receive a pre-note via a computer system that the flight is pending.