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Peoples' Champion!
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From: UK
Flash,
It has been known. . . Am working on busting a landing fees scam at the mo, I guess it could be useful. . .
BH
In your world of smoke mirrors and championing. Surely you have only used g-info in your crusade to annoy people.
BH
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From: I have no idea but the view's great.
I've just checked G-INFO and I don't seem to own my aeroplane any more; if only there was some online resource giving me the name and address of the owner then I could ask to borrow it back.
The Original Whirly
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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
I only just found this thread, and a few thoughts come to mind....
Maybe it's lucky for the CAA that aviation is so male orientated. Everyone seems to intuitively understand that women, especially those living alone, might not want all and sundry to have access to their addresses. I can see it now - young blonde female gets out of her aeroplane, is chatted up by local yobbish spotter, and rebuffs him. He takes the reg, looks it up on G-INFO, and goes round to her house at dead of night.....
(And yes, he could have followed her car, or looked her up some other way, but her name's Jane Smith and it would have been a lot harder.)
Oh dear, CAA, I think the media would love that one!!!!
But seriously, people have a right to a certain amount of privacy, for any reason, or no reason. We can go ex-directory. Why can't we ask to be "ex-directory" on G-INFO?
Maybe it's lucky for the CAA that aviation is so male orientated. Everyone seems to intuitively understand that women, especially those living alone, might not want all and sundry to have access to their addresses. I can see it now - young blonde female gets out of her aeroplane, is chatted up by local yobbish spotter, and rebuffs him. He takes the reg, looks it up on G-INFO, and goes round to her house at dead of night.....
(And yes, he could have followed her car, or looked her up some other way, but her name's Jane Smith and it would have been a lot harder.)Oh dear, CAA, I think the media would love that one!!!!
But seriously, people have a right to a certain amount of privacy, for any reason, or no reason. We can go ex-directory. Why can't we ask to be "ex-directory" on G-INFO?
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From: Burgess Hill, UK
Whirlybird, you do have a great imagination! You might have only just caught up with this thread, but the information has been available for years. 3 or 4 years on G-info and before that by telephone or by going to the CAA library or in the Bureau Veritas book, now CD- this has all the information for 40 or 50 countries I think.
So nothing has happend yet and nothing likely to happen, so those few paranoid people with all the theories better find something else to get paranoid about!
Anyway the good news is that it all seems to be back to normal now
So nothing has happend yet and nothing likely to happen, so those few paranoid people with all the theories better find something else to get paranoid about!
Anyway the good news is that it all seems to be back to normal now
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From: Kent
How weird...looked yesterday morning after hearing rumors that the addresses had gone, and thus was the case for some a/c, but not all.
As stik said, some owners were listed for one of their machines, but not the other.
All back now, so must have been a DB glitch somewhere at the CAA's end!
tKF
As stik said, some owners were listed for one of their machines, but not the other.
All back now, so must have been a DB glitch somewhere at the CAA's end!
tKF
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From: I have no idea but the view's great.
I've got my aeroplane back, too.
G-INFO is very useful for those of us having senior moments, if we can't remember where we live then we just type our reg into G-INFO and instantly know where home is.
G-INFO is very useful for those of us having senior moments, if we can't remember where we live then we just type our reg into G-INFO and instantly know where home is.
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From: Royston Vasey
Jucky:
I have spoken to "M" & Miss Moneypenny. They both agree if you tell us the reasons for the security problem "Q" will provide the neccessary equipment, and James B (AKA 007)will watch your back. Sorted then.
I have spoken to "M" & Miss Moneypenny. They both agree if you tell us the reasons for the security problem "Q" will provide the neccessary equipment, and James B (AKA 007)will watch your back. Sorted then.
Peoples' Champion!
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With respect, cubflyer, and putting aside the issue of G-INFO for a moment, I think you dismissed Whirly's concerns rather too flippantly. It is easy for us big, hairy-ar$ed males to overlook quite how vulnerable single females can feel about their privacy.
I was reminded of this recently when Mrs Big Hilly (a young, blonde female) went to our local video rental shop (the big high street chain) to hire a DVD. When you hand over your membership card they ask you to "confirm your name and address", which she duly did, got the DVD and drove home. About an hour later, there was a knock on the door and there was a man who had been standing next to her in the queue at the video shop who announced “all right, darlin’, do you fancy goin out for a drink wiv me?” Clearly, he had overheard her giving out her address and decided that he’d try his chances. Luckily, I was home and so came to the door when she called me BUT, it could have been a whole lot worse. . . . .
BH
I was reminded of this recently when Mrs Big Hilly (a young, blonde female) went to our local video rental shop (the big high street chain) to hire a DVD. When you hand over your membership card they ask you to "confirm your name and address", which she duly did, got the DVD and drove home. About an hour later, there was a knock on the door and there was a man who had been standing next to her in the queue at the video shop who announced “all right, darlin’, do you fancy goin out for a drink wiv me?” Clearly, he had overheard her giving out her address and decided that he’d try his chances. Luckily, I was home and so came to the door when she called me BUT, it could have been a whole lot worse. . . . .
BH
