Anna@Eastbourne Airshow 2016

😀 Cheers Simon. You are very welcome to post your shots.

Christ – you’d better take that one down – if the CAA sees it they’ll probably close Beachy Head next year in case a Seagull has someone’s eye out…

It was a dismal year for Beachy Head photography wasn’t it? I was there on Saturday and about the only thing that I didn’t need a 600mm lens for was a nice close flypast from the BBMF:

BBMF fly past Beachy Head by sboreeves, on Flickr

I’ve written an email to the Eastbourne Tourist Information Centre to tell them that the amassed crowd on Beachy Head had a very disappointing afternoon, possibly due to heavy-handed application of the CAA regs. They list Beachy Head as an official viewing point so hopefully something can be done. I got a reply saying that they had passed the message onto the event organisers. Sadly if the Beachy Head photo opportunities have gone forever then I doubt I’ll be back next year.

My other Eastbourne pics are here. Hope you don’t mind me hijacking your thread a bit Anna – if so I’ll delete this post and start my own 🙂

There were still many boats, windsurfers etc all viewing from under the flight line too, so no restrictions there.

To me sat on the beach in front of the wish tower, the flight line appeared to be as usual, as did the flying display, with some quite low action.

Just not so many arrived around Beachy Head as before, possibly because of their routing from Biggin Hill, Lydd, Headcorn etc.
I see those that were temporarily based at Shoreham came round Beachy head.

Nice photos Anna.

How have the restrictions affected Eastbourne ?
I thought the flightline already conformed to regulations.

Lack of air show traffic on Beachy head , so decided to post other birds of flight ! Cheers to the CAA for another cocked up Air Show !!