Orion,
As Bubbles said, the Airport Hotel is a good place to spot from, you do pay £5 to park but you get £4 of that back when you buy a round from the bar. The only drawbacks here are that it gets very busy with families when it’s warm, and once the car park’s full, they turn you away.
Also as it’s a family pub, you do have to keep an eye on your camera, not suggesting that they’re light-fingered but I’ve often seen kids running between the tables and sloshing drinks around, not thinking/caring that people have a grands-worth of camera!
If you’re happy to have no facilities, then continue past the AVP (as if you’d turned out of the AVP and turned left on the main road) and drive underneath the two tunnels, and turn left at the roundabout. That’ll lead you onto a small road where you can park for free. If you walk through the gate you come onto a path. You can either head up the hill to the left and hang off the gate (not recommended in the mud) or you can carry on ahead and up to the perimeter fence. Sticking to the official path, you can’t get a camera through the fence, but you’ll find a gap in the fence which leads you up to a small mound where you have an unrestricted view of both the terminal and the runway. You’re not meant to be there, but the airport police take a regular drive past and are not bothered by you being there. The sun’s behind you here 😀
Aggy
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