Excellent shots! I don’t think I have ever been on so many aircraft shown in one select of snaps; CS-TTA, G-VKSS, G-VTOP and PH-BGH are all aircraft I have been on in the last year. 🙂

read the question guys it said out of HEATHROW

Yes, and it also said…

Out of curiosity, does anyone know the worlds longest non-stop flight? Must be a North America- Asia one, but which?

Nice shots, Rob.

I travelled on G-VKSS a few weeks back. It’s always nice to catch a ride on a shiny, new plane.

As to T5, I’m glad I’m not a Wokingham council tax payer. I would be very irritated that council employees were wasting their time pursuing pointless freedom of information requests.

Pointless? How exactly? We appealed to the council and brought to their attention some of the observations made on the street in question. They decided to reject our appeal and insisted that we pay the fine. But on the same day, other cars had also been ticketed, and walking down the street countless times over the following weeks, I saw other cars with tickets on them too. Were these people that were deliberately parking illegally in the hope that nobody would spot them – in one of the busiest towns in the south? I don’t think so. These were people who genuinely believed that they could park there.

If ever I am not happy or wish to challenge the council on, well, pretty much anything, I will continue to use this rather brilliant service – regardless of the time ‘wasted’ on research by council employees. There will come a time when you might want to make a ‘pointless’ request yourself.

If it was a private parking company, I would suggest that you tear the ticket to pieces and forget all about. After buying your details from the DVLA and bombarding you with a countless number of threatening letters, these sorts of companies soon give up.

Being the council, however, you might as well pay the bill (whilst it is more affordable at £25) and learn from the mistake. A relative of mine tried to challenge a parking ticket with Reading Borough Council last year but her appeal was rejected and she was forced to pay. Looking at the photographs taken upon returning to her car, I agreed with her that the signage was inadequate. Let’s face it, few people are going to intentionally park illegally, and she honestly believed that the space she was occupying entitled her to 1 hour of free parking. Two signs positioned next to one another meant that there was some confusion and she was actually in a bay for permit holders only.

Keen to claw back some of the £30 fine, I decided to make a freedom of information request to the council. If they were going to take her £30, I was keen for the council to spend some of it on some research. The street in question had perhaps a dozen parking spaces, so I wanted to know how many tickets had been issued in the 12 months leading up to her ticket being issued – 1,703 was the answer (almost 4.5 per day – a high number, I thought, especially considering there were no meters at the time so nobody could overstay on a pre-paid ticket). I also asked what percentage of ticketed drivers in this particular street appealed their fines – only 1.23% apparently (I’m still not convinced by that figure – do only a little over 1 in a 100 people challenge a parking ticket?). And of them, 20% apparently claimed that the signage was not clear and there was confusion about where they could and could not park. And finally, I wanted to know how this particular street compared to others in Reading as a ticketing hotspot and was told that it was the second most ticketed street in the whole of the rather large town – second to the Oxford Road, which is a road stretching for several miles (with ample parking space and more opportunities to catch out careless drivers).

You must be very easily distracted, I didnt notice them. Good shots, and I appreciated them.

Yes, you are right. I am very easily distracted and I really didn’t appreciate the photographs at all. What a couple of very silly statements!

Anything posted on this forum can (and sometimes will be) critiqued and scrutinised by other forum members. The photographs were great – as was pointed out in my first post – but I find it difficult to properly appreciate an image when it has quite a dense chunk of text running right through the subject. I find it distracting, you don’t. I have my opinion, you have yours.

Let’s move on.

To be fair to T5, i have adjusted the watermark opacity and position to try to minimise distraction.

In my opinion, that’s a huge improvement. Don’t get me wrong though, I do completely understand the need for watermarks as there are some people who will gladly pass off somebody else’s work as their own, but there are ways of doing it without the need for large and obtrusive lines of text.

Anyway, moan over. Great shots. 🙂

Not today they haven’t

They must have switched at some point today because they were back on the 09s this evening.