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Old 26th Jul 2019, 17:45
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egnxema
 
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While loving the fact that the programme's "studio" was the field, now the Aeropark at EMA, which was my go to Saturday plane watching location as a local Doningtonian kid, I couldn't quite tell who the target audience was. It was BBC4 - so a niche audience rather than mass audience. So why dumb it down with comments like "OOOH look, this is a big one." and calling the Flybe aircraft "30 year old propeller planes" ?

there are a number of YouTube videos which better demonstrate the extent of the nighttime cargo operation at EMA.

The BBC4 programme had some interesting VT segments, but was essentially 3 hours of live TV without a real objective.
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