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I'm not familiar with the incident mentioned, however it is worth mentioning whether the aircraft came within 600 feet laterally or vertically. Aircraft can be vertically separated by 600 feet and still be within the legal 'standard separation' as Air Traffic Controllers know it. Laterally is a different kettle of fish, though.

Keen though the VATSIM virtual on-line ATC people no doubt are, it is not real-life and therefore I don't think that they are an authoritative source of information regarding real life ATC procedures. The first line of the linked page contained a major inaccuracy, therefore I've deleted the reference.

BaseTurnComplete 22:26, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger discussion[edit]

This makes no sense as an standalone article. It should be merged into the main Heathrow Airport article. I don't see other stack articles relating to major airports worldwide. --91.125.44.117 (talk) 17:38, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep separate. The stacking system is notable and worthy of explanation on wikipedia, but of niche interest to most readers on wikipedia. The main article on Heathrow is long enough already. The stack system should be kept for 'further reading if interested'. Pmbma (talk) 17:14, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge a few portion, and then delete. At first I thought it is about the big traffic, but it is just the ATC protocol thing. It is not that worth having a standalone article. Citations are also limited.
I say delete the article, but take the 'Incident' part and put it in the 'Incidents' section of Heathrow Airport. Gerald Waldo Luis (talk) 08:03, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support the merger. The introduction can be merged into Heathrow Airport, but the body can probably be deleted as it does not appear to be notable. Much of the information in the article is not sourced, so this should also be considered if reliable sources to back up these claims cannot be found. Redtree21 (talk) 14:04, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose the merger as proposed. The independent coverage appears to be sufficient for establishing notability (Wired, Times, The Telegraph, Henley Standard) and if a merger is discussed, the correct target should probably be London_Area_Control_Centre#Approach_sectors where the stacks are already mentioned (they are not part of the Airport). A quick Google Books search also found a 1976 article "Future system consideration for operations of aircraft in the terminal movement area" in The Aeronautical Journal (accessible via Wikipedia Library), which mostly focuses on the Heathrow arrival stacks. PaulT2022 (talk) 00:47, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]