heathrow director

[retro11]

a little clip of the director freq during the usual thunderstorms that build up over the summer months, nothing
unusual in the clip but a lot of people ask for LHR audio so heres some late summer inbounds to 27L its 5 mins
long but hope you get feel for it thanks...

[mrhahn]

Very cool, was this 120.4?

[NoMad]

Is this legal to have posted here?

[philip]

It's not live, so I think its ok, I'll be putting up 6 hours of video and London ATC from heathrow airport that I recorded all day opposite the runway at the hotel.  Had the scanner on full blast you could standing outside the door so it's not really that illegal 

[cessna157]

Can someone explain to me (I'm just a dumb U.S. airline pilot), what is "director" and what does he do?

[ogogog]

Can someone explain to me (I'm just a dumb U.S. airline pilot), what is "director" and what does he do?

its the same as a arrival controller in the US, all they do is sequence aircraft on the final to a rwy, or as the Brits call it radar directing aircaft to final.

OG

[retro11]

in the uk we use approach and director , different from the US/canada who as most of you know use
arrival and final , the director has the same job as final controler feeding the a/c in towards the ILS

[Casper87]

A Director is one who utlises radar to sequence arrivals only (however that's not always the case; the Southerly Heathrow position works outbounds to CPT on Easterlies).
In the UK we use a variety of callsigns for approach radar positions:

Radar
Director
Talkdown (Mil)
Zone (Mil)
Approach (Historically used for when the unit is providing a Procedural Approach Service)

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[cessna157]

in the uk we use approach and director , different from the US/canada who as most of you know use
arrival and final , the director has the same job as final controler feeding the a/c in towards the ILS

Ahhh!  That was going to be my next question.  So "director" is the British equivalent to "Final" in the US

[Casper87]

Yea pretty much. Not quite sure how it works in the US; whether  'Final' is always the last radar postion to work traffic onto the ILS. But in the UK at some units we have Intermediate and Final Directors.

C

[dave]

It's not live, so I think its ok, I'll be putting up 6 hours of video and London ATC from heathrow airport that I recorded all day opposite the runway at the hotel.  Had the scanner on full blast you could standing outside the door so it's not really that illegal 

It's not live, which is fine.  So it stays.