I’m not a spotter, however, over the years working at Plymouth Airport and RAF St Mawgan I recognised the value that spotters brought these airfields. At St Mawgan I would often drive out and let the guys know of inbounds (or long breaks!) and when there was a rare aeroplane on the dispersal, take the spotters camera and get some shots of it. Every now and then, rescue the odd spotter that had fallen off the Cornish stone wall into the airfields brambles and stinging nettles(!).
I found after a while that the local spotters would ‘police’ the outsiders and if suspicious let me know what the problem was.
The airport authorities in this case should try and work alongside these spotters and not target them, if I worked there, instead of repeatedly repairing the fence and making a fuss, I would put small purpose built camera holes in the fence, problem solved.
just my thoughts
Baz
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