http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33768-2002Jul6.html
Above is a link to a website I found about the hobby of plane-spotting.Interesting to see how people who are not interested in aviation view our hobby.However,I did get a bit of an impression that the journalist saw these people as total anoraks!
This leads me on to the question,how do your friends and family view your hobby on aviation?My parents really do encourage it. My Dad takes me up the airport nearly every weekend even though he is not the biggest of fans and my Mum just says its nice to have a hobby you are really in to.I’ve got a lot of stick from my friends.They say i’m a ‘Plane geek’ as a joke and wonder why I prefer to go to the airport rather than hang around with them!
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By: EGNM - 8th July 2002 at 20:59
RE: Article on plane spotting
I have got a lot of stick in the past but most ppl pass me off for what i am – my grandparents live in deepest Suffolk and have taken me off the top of my head to Stansted, Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Woodbridge, Alconbury, Ipswich, Clacton and Beccles (all when were open)- and my dad has sometimes unwittingly taken me to airshows at Church Fenton and Elvington, but also regularly to Leeds (which i also bus), Manchester and even Sheffield, East Mids, Wittering and Liverpool, Caenafon in passing, and they always set aside a couple of hours on holiday at the local gateway.
I agree with Dan – when i was in Lanzarote i hired a bike and as it was a school tip there were 2 ppl outta 8 who had never flown before and they were asking everything about it – whats he doing, where we going, how fast, which is our plane? and they were genuinly interested and as i went out nearly every day to catch early arrivals and departures at Arrecife 15 minutes away by bike i even took 3 of em down on mornings and they weer amazed wit the scanner (obviously i kept the notebook hidden and was storing them on my fone). But the same has happened with mates askign about y it is quicker home from florida than going etc and i think that with most ppl the facination of how 300 tonnes of metal can b thrust so fast up in to the deep blue yonder is there.
By: dan330 - 8th July 2002 at 20:49
RE: Article on plane spotting
My parents used to encourage it, I used to get a lift to the airports a few times a year, although its much better now I can drive myself and go whenever I want!
I get a lot of stick at work but laugh it off, none of its nasty but there are a lot of jokes that fly my way. I actually think if I showed some of the photos they’d be quite impressed.
The article above is good in that it gives some publicity, but it does make us all out to be geeks and isn’t at all complimentary.
By: LGKR - 8th July 2002 at 18:50
RE: Article on plane spotting
out of interest Saab…. how old are you???
By: Rabie - 8th July 2002 at 16:32
RE: Article on plane spotting
“even when they pursue it lawfully“
where is arthur when you need him (talks with the belorus police, the ifiltration of a ukrainian su-24 base, etc , etc)
“Some men bring their children along to spot planes. Some have tried, with little success, to bring their wives or girlfriends. Most spotters are men.
Many spotters are involved in technical careers such as computers or engineering. They appreciate the patterns, numbers and precision required in aviation.”
now that is sterotypical and patronizing
rabie :9
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July 8, 2002 at 4:14 pm