I had to go airside at Stansted yesterday....went to Enterprise House, showed passport, given pass.
Drive up to cargo loading area and because my little group could not all fit into a car, seven of us stood in the back of a transit without windows. Stopped at gate....someone looks at passes and said "If you have any cameras you must leave them here"
No search of our bags or the van - we hand in a few cameras on trust that we have no more and cruised onto the field to go and examine an a/c we are interested in.
We could have had explosives & weapons etc. but the interest was only cameras - when I questioned the "security" as to the reason, he said "Its the Airfield Management because they dont want any journalists or TV people embarassing our lack of security"