Opinions On Taking Pictures on Aircraft
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Disgusted of Tunbridge
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Some of you should stop using UK or US norms in making your conclusions. You will be in for a big surprise when you go abroad and find things are done differently Show up at a civil airport where you may not be aware but military facilities share the airport, in many places (seemingly in Greece most airports) with a camera, and be regarded as acting suspiciously, and you will be bewildered by the reaction. And not just Greece. These foreign places are not always as free and easy as the West. But it seems some of you are determined not to be told how it is! I refer you again to the earlier news reference I made.
I quite forgot myself. Lovely evening at 'a Greek airfield' recently, I took my camera on my walkaround and was gaily snapping away at the aircraft. Nobody took any notice, and I was just interested in pictures of my own aeroplane, but suddenly I recalled you don't do such things in Greece!
I quite forgot myself. Lovely evening at 'a Greek airfield' recently, I took my camera on my walkaround and was gaily snapping away at the aircraft. Nobody took any notice, and I was just interested in pictures of my own aeroplane, but suddenly I recalled you don't do such things in Greece!
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Have carried my camera with me for the best part of 40 years - just excercised a certain amount of caution in certain parts of the world. Have many pictures taken from the flight deck over parts of the world where it is supposidly(?) forbidden.
As for electronics - have used Digital cameras SLR type for many years and I've lost count of the number of times I've left my phone on only to realise it half way across Siberia.
As many have said before - use discretion - its what distinguishes the human from animals and morons (aka security)
As for electronics - have used Digital cameras SLR type for many years and I've lost count of the number of times I've left my phone on only to realise it half way across Siberia.
As many have said before - use discretion - its what distinguishes the human from animals and morons (aka security)
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Agree with Rainboe. Use a little common sense. If you are in Harare and see Mil A/C (ok, AOG wrecks), don't get the camera out. Syria, Israel... I'm sure you're intelligent enough to get the picture.... (ouch).
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gulp. as she sees her job going out the window...
We operate an aerial photography business [we: he owns & photographs, I fly!] over here in NZ.
Firstly i wonder now if i should be banning him from having said camera open and ready until we are upon our first target ...
said target also not knowing they're our target until he turns up to sell the photo to them... 
and secondly, we were operating around a military airfield the other day, ie photographing ALL the properties on and around its boundary, and never once were we questioned by ATC about what we were filming - which could potentially have been anything and everything inside the base!
Does this point to common sense prevailing over here for a commercial enterprise; or the sad state of our air force in that there is no longer anything to hide...?
We operate an aerial photography business [we: he owns & photographs, I fly!] over here in NZ.
Firstly i wonder now if i should be banning him from having said camera open and ready until we are upon our first target ...
said target also not knowing they're our target until he turns up to sell the photo to them... and secondly, we were operating around a military airfield the other day, ie photographing ALL the properties on and around its boundary, and never once were we questioned by ATC about what we were filming - which could potentially have been anything and everything inside the base!
Does this point to common sense prevailing over here for a commercial enterprise; or the sad state of our air force in that there is no longer anything to hide...?
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back in the early 90's I flew Miami - Grand Cayman 2-3 times per year. Did the trip with several different airlines - Northwest/Pan Am/Cayman Airways and without fail as we approached Cuba the Flight Deck would announce that one of the conditions of Cuban overflight permission was no photographs from the plane.
I believe that Norway has/had a no photographs rule as well (aerial photographs without permission)
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I believe that Norway has/had a no photographs rule as well (aerial photographs without permission)
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Does this point to common sense prevailing over here for a commercial enterprise; or the sad state of our air force in that there is no longer anything to hide...?
Don't worry, if you don't happen to photograph anything specific, at least you're capturing God's country for the rest to envy!
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I believe that Norway has/had a no photographs rule as well (aerial photographs without permission)
I know back in the cold war times no photos were permitted in/around combined civil/military airports. These days you don't get in to any trouble taking photos - not even during the Nato foreign minister meeting this April
Here you can see Condi's C-40B up to the right in this picture. The C-40B is parked on taxiway X-ray and on the apron closer to Gardermoen Air Base the Fokker that brought the Dutch foreign minister is easy to recognize by its orange tail. The photo is taken with IXUS 700 from a SAS 73G heading for Stockholm.
Later that same day I got this photo
Need I mention that I didn't see a flying pig this time?
The photo was taken from a SAS/Transwede AVRO RJ70 heading for London City Airport. Also this time the IXUS was of great help.
