Watching Easterly Heathrow Departures

When the wind blows out the East, Heathrow uses the Southern Runway for departures (known as 09R). This has the effect that to avoid flying over central London, aircraft take off and make a turn to the left over Wembley and follow the M35 to the East, or M1 to the North. Those turning right make a gentle correction and aim for Gatwick and then fly East to Dover. Finally the US bound departures make a 140-160 degree right turn, at low altitude producing some very good opertunities for pictures like below. Have a look at more of these shots on my site at www.plane-sight-images.photshelter.com contained in the Heathrow Winter 2012 folder.