FULLEMERGENCY,i've been reading your posts in the "Spotting Spot" thread with interest and i gather you're police or security.
It might help to change your attitude toward spotters to know some of us are in fact Commercial Airline Pilots,the very ones people like yourself are helping to secure when we,too,are at work.
I count myself amongst this group,and i must say i've been 'spotting' all my life virtually.The lifelong passion turned into a career and so,for me,spotting is a way of seeing different aircraft in different locations around the globe in their natural element.Its odd flying over a perimeter fence on short final and looking down at the spotters knowing i'm one of them sometimes!
I agree,some of them are total losers and may well be unstable,i've certainly met a few nutters in my time,but please remember next time you chase a spotter away,that the following day he/she may very well be commanding an aircraft into your airport!
Cheers,and keep up the good work policing our airports REASONABLY.
