Well, I certainly can't speak for other professional pilots, but I suspect they
all were 'spotters' at one time before flying professionally....you know, hanging over the airport fence, trying to get a closer look at all the fine flying machinery.
As aviation has been rather kind to most professional pilots, I wonder just why then these same folks look on 'spotters' with disdain?
Seems totally unreasonable to me.
Or, to put it another way, don't these same professional pilots also have a hobby?
Other than sitting on the bar stool, that is....
