firstly. got to admit i don’t know straight up about trains…., on the subject in hand though. Trinny. your gesture was a great one offering a flight to aircraft enthusiasts. personally i would never turn down a flight, and it would be more than breakfast i’d stump up for. more like a three courser at Frankie and Bennies.;-) i used to go on trips with a local ‘aviation society’ and all they were interested in was darting from airfield to airfield and logging the numbers. on one trip we got to an airfield ( mignt have been at Bourn iirc) there was a type i was unfamiliar with. took pictures but couldn’t see any id apart from the reg, asked one of my traveling companions “what type is that” ( i didn’t have a spotters bible btw) his comment “i dunno, got its number, thats all i’m interested in”. kinda says it all really. incidentally, it turned out to be a Gardan Horizon. on another occasion i helped the pilot of a cessna skymaster pull his aircraft out of the hanger. he said he would take some of us up for a half hour jolly if we wanted. i was all for it but the others said “we havn’t got time. too many airfields to visit”. ho well. never got a skymonster in my logbook. that was the last trip i went on with them. one other thing. sometimes if a pilot is going out of the circuit an extra pair of eyes can be usefull. utilise the spotters and brief them on keeping a look out. just a few views from the other side of the fence, as was.

all the best.

Greg