Photographing plane spotters
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oooh errrr misssus!!!
"Mate - I could have sworn you where wearing your new flying suit in the hangar the other day...."
eharding.... I thought that was a little secret between you and I! Just don't tell Flash he may get excited.
eharding.... I thought that was a little secret between you and I! Just don't tell Flash he may get excited.
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I must admit to pulling a few poses out of the Wessex door when flying near the crash gates during school holidays, the place would be teeming with kids and their Dads.
Standing out on the step during talkdown was de-rigeur
Bit more difficult in the Warrior!
Still, if you've got it, flaunt it
Standing out on the step during talkdown was de-rigeur
Bit more difficult in the Warrior!
Still, if you've got it, flaunt it
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I have never found the need to register and post,until I read this one.
My father brought me up,watching planes at Prestwick,and it was his influence that got me into the wonderful world that is aviation.
Sure I started off `number crunching` before moving on to photography,which at nearly 40,I still do,running my own website,and supplying airlines and aviation magazines with images.
I am also a PPL,having gained my licence back in 2002,a feat I dedicated to my late dad.
I cannot believe the arrogance of some posters here,going on about the `anorak brigade`
Sure there will always be some that test the boudaries(I laughed at the Jet Provest post)but not all aviation enthusiasts are freaks.
The majority just enjoy aviation,pure and simple!!
Safe flying over Easter folks.
My father brought me up,watching planes at Prestwick,and it was his influence that got me into the wonderful world that is aviation.
Sure I started off `number crunching` before moving on to photography,which at nearly 40,I still do,running my own website,and supplying airlines and aviation magazines with images.
I am also a PPL,having gained my licence back in 2002,a feat I dedicated to my late dad.
I cannot believe the arrogance of some posters here,going on about the `anorak brigade`
Sure there will always be some that test the boudaries(I laughed at the Jet Provest post)but not all aviation enthusiasts are freaks.
The majority just enjoy aviation,pure and simple!!
Safe flying over Easter folks.
Rufus, you are absolutely right. I know a lot of spotters who eventually made it into professional and/or private aviation, myself included! Don't knock 'em guys; they are one of your best allies.
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However, I do think that 'spotting' is a pretty sad way for grown-ups to spend their time... Personal opinion only, mind you...
Must point that out to them the next time we meet
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My friend who travels the world taking aircraft pictures got a good one of me last weekend landing at Barton. I am sooo pleased to get a great shot of my 150.
I was once a bit of a spotter. Don't get me wrong, none of that registration writing down stuff, just sitting down at The Airport Hotel at Manchester watching them come into land.
I use to daydream about being a pilot. 10 years later, I am going to be one flying 737's soon.
Spotters envy pilots for doing what they do. Give them the time of day.
If you wave, I will wave back.
Regards EGCC4284
I was once a bit of a spotter. Don't get me wrong, none of that registration writing down stuff, just sitting down at The Airport Hotel at Manchester watching them come into land.
I use to daydream about being a pilot. 10 years later, I am going to be one flying 737's soon.
Spotters envy pilots for doing what they do. Give them the time of day.
If you wave, I will wave back.
Regards EGCC4284
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Having seen the very "unusual" bunch hanging around the car park at Blackbushe on Saturday I think the case for termination of the spotter species is sound. Decidedly dodgy looking to say the least and all in the same uniform too.
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<the very "unusual" bunch hanging around the car park at Blackbushe on Saturday>
FlyingSteve, they weren't spotters that was the Al-Qaeda flying group trying to blend in with their surroundings.
As an ex-trainspotter
(whose interest in girls triggered throwing away all my locoshed books - I realised that the chicks really didn't dig trains and if they were ever going to dig me the trains had to go) I have sympathy for the spotters.
Live and let live - we are living their dreams.
SB
FlyingSteve, they weren't spotters that was the Al-Qaeda flying group trying to blend in with their surroundings.
As an ex-trainspotter
(whose interest in girls triggered throwing away all my locoshed books - I realised that the chicks really didn't dig trains and if they were ever going to dig me the trains had to go) I have sympathy for the spotters. Live and let live - we are living their dreams.
SB
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You are quite right scooter boy. The Al Qaeida thing explains the beards - how could I have missed it. I have to admit I did do some spotting when iw as a nipper having been brought up in spitting distance of LHR, but I got better by the age of 14 or 15 when girls had more to keep me interested. Each to their own!
