Run! It's the Spotter Police
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I had a spotter here yesterday, a "Foxbat" light aircraft landed at my strip, they only said hello and were off in a bout five minutes again.
Just as they were airborne a "spotter" arrived and wanted to know all about this aircraft etc.
I was a bit reluctant at first in case he was out to report them for something, but he was just a "spotter"
So I told him where the aircraft was based (about 10 miles away)and off he went "wheels spinning" to se if he could get there before they landed.
I dont really understand them but I suppose its all harmless fun.
Just as they were airborne a "spotter" arrived and wanted to know all about this aircraft etc.
I was a bit reluctant at first in case he was out to report them for something, but he was just a "spotter"
So I told him where the aircraft was based (about 10 miles away)and off he went "wheels spinning" to se if he could get there before they landed.
I dont really understand them but I suppose its all harmless fun.
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HI EVO
Be NOT AFRAID.
I have SPOTTED YOU . and I am a forum spotter ,and now probably a hijaker of threads , teehee
but I am harmless .
pinkster
Be NOT AFRAID.
I have SPOTTED YOU . and I am a forum spotter ,and now probably a hijaker of threads , teehee
but I am harmless .
pinkster
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BRL,
I must confess I don't understand your logic in talking about this thread and Pink Headsets in the same breath. I've only skimmed this thread, but I've seen little content relating to Private Flying...though I daresay there's some. That's the reason I rarely come back to it. Pink Headsets, on the other hand, is overall fairly flying related. OK, so there's a lot of other stuff there too. OK, so PA's way of describing stuff is a little....unconventional, shall we say. But overall it's a detailed account of her flying training. It is becoming very popular...and a fair number of regular readers are instructors and/or regular PPRuNers - BEagle, Westwind1950, little me, knobbygb...to mention but a few. I know some people don't like it - but they don't have to read it. And it's merely ONE thread - PA is hardly starting half a dozen per day, as has happened in the past with...minority interest threads, shall we say.
I started off not reading it, then dipped in now and then, then thought it was fun but didn't take it seriously. I now feel very strongly that it should be left where it is. I think you should show this post to the other mods, who I gather discuss this thread at intervals. I know I speak for a number of others. And I suspect I speak for a number of lurkers, some of them people who wouldn't otherwise bother with all the technical detail in Private Flying ( and flaming!), some of them new PPLs and students who are scared to post, but can identify with PA's difficulties, both in her private life and in the air.
Seriously, I think this thread is an asset to PPRuNe. As for it's place being on PA's website, I for one don't want to go there. I spend too much time on the internet. I'm a busy person; I read PPRune, then that's it. I don't want to get into PA's life generally (Sorry, Pink One!). But I do want to read fun, sometimes digressing, but vaguely flying related threads on Private Flying. And as one of the founder members of Priavte Flying , who fought for this forum, I think I have a right to be listened to.
So, I mean it, KEEP PINK HEADSETS!!!!!!!
I must confess I don't understand your logic in talking about this thread and Pink Headsets in the same breath. I've only skimmed this thread, but I've seen little content relating to Private Flying...though I daresay there's some. That's the reason I rarely come back to it. Pink Headsets, on the other hand, is overall fairly flying related. OK, so there's a lot of other stuff there too. OK, so PA's way of describing stuff is a little....unconventional, shall we say. But overall it's a detailed account of her flying training. It is becoming very popular...and a fair number of regular readers are instructors and/or regular PPRuNers - BEagle, Westwind1950, little me, knobbygb...to mention but a few. I know some people don't like it - but they don't have to read it. And it's merely ONE thread - PA is hardly starting half a dozen per day, as has happened in the past with...minority interest threads, shall we say.
I started off not reading it, then dipped in now and then, then thought it was fun but didn't take it seriously. I now feel very strongly that it should be left where it is. I think you should show this post to the other mods, who I gather discuss this thread at intervals. I know I speak for a number of others. And I suspect I speak for a number of lurkers, some of them people who wouldn't otherwise bother with all the technical detail in Private Flying ( and flaming!), some of them new PPLs and students who are scared to post, but can identify with PA's difficulties, both in her private life and in the air.
Seriously, I think this thread is an asset to PPRuNe. As for it's place being on PA's website, I for one don't want to go there. I spend too much time on the internet. I'm a busy person; I read PPRune, then that's it. I don't want to get into PA's life generally (Sorry, Pink One!). But I do want to read fun, sometimes digressing, but vaguely flying related threads on Private Flying. And as one of the founder members of Priavte Flying , who fought for this forum, I think I have a right to be listened to.
So, I mean it, KEEP PINK HEADSETS!!!!!!!
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I think that it would be a shame if we could not have threads in Private Flying which principally consist of jokes and daft anecdotes. BRL's own "Passengers from Hell" thread was a good example of a thread of this kind. The PFA thread included a lot of ranting, but raised some worthwhile debate about the organisation. I shall take the Fifth in relation to the pink thing.
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I agree completely with BRL.
The spotter thread was very funny but its home should now be in Jet Blast, so that others who are looking for just such a thread can find it and enjoy it. Its where I go when looking for a
I had a look at Pink's site and its a very deserving home for her thread. You could even assume that it had been set up specifically for this purpose. Perhaps someone can help her move it over in its fullness. The thread seems to have become a club for those that visit it and is only a click away from these people's favorite list. Whirly, you cannot use the phase "I am a busy person" in a post about reading Pink's thread
The spotter thread was very funny but its home should now be in Jet Blast, so that others who are looking for just such a thread can find it and enjoy it. Its where I go when looking for a
I had a look at Pink's site and its a very deserving home for her thread. You could even assume that it had been set up specifically for this purpose. Perhaps someone can help her move it over in its fullness. The thread seems to have become a club for those that visit it and is only a click away from these people's favorite list. Whirly, you cannot use the phase "I am a busy person" in a post about reading Pink's thread
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WHATS A "FIFTH " FNG. please .
The girl from the PINK thing .
The girl from the PINK thing .
The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution's Bill of Rights:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Not sure of the relevance here, to be honest, PP, perhaps FNG is referring to the right to be free from self-incrimination?
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Not sure of the relevance here, to be honest, PP, perhaps FNG is referring to the right to be free from self-incrimination?
WestWind1950, there certainly are spotters in Germany!
Several years ago I was working in the field as a temporary Harrier site opertaions officer. The site commander was rather concerned at the number of civilians who had come to watch the jets flying out of the site as some were parking directly under the approach path at quite some risk to their safety.
The problem was solved when they were encouraged to move by a demonstration of 'playful' antics by our woolly alligators masquerading as police dogs! A few woofs and bites on the padded suit worn by the volunteer RAF 'intruder' persuaded our inquisitive German chums to move to somewhere rather safer!
Several years ago I was working in the field as a temporary Harrier site opertaions officer. The site commander was rather concerned at the number of civilians who had come to watch the jets flying out of the site as some were parking directly under the approach path at quite some risk to their safety.
The problem was solved when they were encouraged to move by a demonstration of 'playful' antics by our woolly alligators masquerading as police dogs! A few woofs and bites on the padded suit worn by the volunteer RAF 'intruder' persuaded our inquisitive German chums to move to somewhere rather safer!
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Rego collecting is something I can't quite understand but watching aircraft fly/land/whatever is fine 
The spotters at Luton probably don't realise how they frighten the FA's who have to walk to their cars. The FA's don't know that they are "harmless" spotters and just see a "different" looking guy loitering around where the public don't usually go. This naturally unerves them a bit. They either get security or one of the male crew to walk them to their cars. Paranoid? No, I don't think so. The threat perception of a female is very different to a male's.
The spotters at Luton probably don't realise how they frighten the FA's who have to walk to their cars. The FA's don't know that they are "harmless" spotters and just see a "different" looking guy loitering around where the public don't usually go. This naturally unerves them a bit. They either get security or one of the male crew to walk them to their cars. Paranoid? No, I don't think so. The threat perception of a female is very different to a male's.
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@BEagle
that must have been in the days when the British had a few military bases here.... the "local" Germans were probably infected with the spotters desease
I live about 5 minutes from Germany's busiest public airfield and I have never seen spotters there.... it's just not common here. That, of course, doesn't mean they don't exist at all... but certainly not as on your island ....
Westy
that must have been in the days when the British had a few military bases here.... the "local" Germans were probably infected with the spotters desease
I live about 5 minutes from Germany's busiest public airfield and I have never seen spotters there.... it's just not common here. That, of course, doesn't mean they don't exist at all... but certainly not as on your island ....
Westy
Well, the last time I landed at FRA (as a LH passenger) I noticed a whole gaggle of spotters on one of the little roads just off the western edge of the airport..
Though perhaps our spotters are rather more common in number as you say!
Though perhaps our spotters are rather more common in number as you say!
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I can't be a@sed dragging my way through umpteen pages of this, but got the gist after about 20 responses.
My partner (In our aircraft-not the poofta variety) is a 23,000 hour heavy pilot (Still - at the age of 62- that narrows it down a bit.!!) Even grade A triple gold anoraks regard him as the God of all Gods. I once put him thorugh a recital of the most obscure reggies, and he got the all one after one.!
I can't do that, but I have been a pilot for 33 years and I am just as plane crazy as I was then. So dear prooners, it is not only people in camo jackets and bobble hats, looking as if six months with a personal fitness trainer would do them a world of good, that are spotters. Mind you I often wonder about the ones trailing the wife with the notebook and muttering reggies for her to dutifully write down. Surely they should be at home cooking....No NO I didn't say that. It was an aberration...honest.
Mind you there are quite a few female of the breed. (And two I am aware of who used to be anoraks and are now anorakettes)
My partner (In our aircraft-not the poofta variety) is a 23,000 hour heavy pilot (Still - at the age of 62- that narrows it down a bit.!!) Even grade A triple gold anoraks regard him as the God of all Gods. I once put him thorugh a recital of the most obscure reggies, and he got the all one after one.!
I can't do that, but I have been a pilot for 33 years and I am just as plane crazy as I was then. So dear prooners, it is not only people in camo jackets and bobble hats, looking as if six months with a personal fitness trainer would do them a world of good, that are spotters. Mind you I often wonder about the ones trailing the wife with the notebook and muttering reggies for her to dutifully write down. Surely they should be at home cooking....No NO I didn't say that. It was an aberration...honest.
Mind you there are quite a few female of the breed. (And two I am aware of who used to be anoraks and are now anorakettes)
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Spotting is to flying as p0rn is to sex.
You get to know what the different bits are called, what they do, how they work, whose got the best and biggest bits, where those bits have been.
But its still nothing like doing it yourself.
You get to know what the different bits are called, what they do, how they work, whose got the best and biggest bits, where those bits have been.
But its still nothing like doing it yourself.
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all pilots start here until they mature
Remember the story about the guy who takes his child to the airport to watch the aeroplanes?
'Daddy, when I grow up I want to be a pilot'
'You can't have both, son'.
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Taildragger - I can't help wondering if the anoraks who became anorakettes did so because they thought there should be more women spotters!
(A similar tale is told about a science fiction fan who had the op. some years ago)
(A similar tale is told about a science fiction fan who had the op. some years ago)