Agreed there should be secuirty checks to get on the viewing deck
but where does it stop?.
I have my own airline photo business and regulary join many others with cameras at non-restricted areas all around airports.
Those cameras could quite easily be something far more dangerous.
However if someone wanted to hit us hard all they would have to do is sit around the South coast on a clear day and wait for a Dover departure,a pair of bins and a shoulder held SAM and
goodbye!!!!.
NJR.
'Barman one more Bacardi and Coke'
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