Yes spotting is certainly now the older mans sport. I popped into Manchester vieiwing park on Monday morning for a bit of nostalgia. I was the youngest spotter there at the age of 54! Everyone seemed older!

Anyhow the way I look at it is that spotting kept me out of trouble as a kid.  I thank spotting for me not getting a criminal record unlike many of my contemporaries from the same housing estate! 

Manchester Airport must now be one of the few places in the U.K with an area reserved  for spotters??