is plane spotting where you just look around the sky for planes???

Hanging out in the vicinity of an airport where good views, and photos are often taken, of arriving & departing aircraft. The act of plane watching & identifying aircraft-

Spot
Inflected Form(s): spot·ted; spot·ting
transitive senses...
a : to single out : IDENTIFY;
....intransitive senses
3 : to act as a spotter; especially : to locate targets (airplanes)

the name kinda explaind itself, a lot.... mix the 2 words up and hey presto, u got what it means spotting plane(s) :D

Read this topic about plane spotters


http://forum.flightlevel350.com/index.php?showtopic=565

Its the poperatzy of the aviation industry!

Get down to you local airport and take pics. You can also view high altitude aircraft flying overhead if you have a pair of binoculars.

some anoraks may also write down aircraft registrations too ;)

Go to the airport.......stand outside the fence in a good position with a camera in one hand and a waterbottle in the other(hey, you may get thirsty ;) ). Or you can stay outside my grandparents house which has all the trafic from the airports flying right over their house(just kidding)
Then when a plane goes by.....TAKE A PICTURE!!!! or just watch it fly over! :lol:



Oh, and be prepared to be queried by the cops.....they're just doing their job..... :D

I plane spot from my house. I watch planes that are on final to i think runway 33L.
I am under the flight path.

U spelled PAPARAZZI wrong.

i tried plane spotting once at syd kingsford airport.. and that time cops came up to me and ask for my IDs.
they used some stupid excuse to search me (e.g. "theres been complaints from the local about people loitering, gang fights, blah blah blah).

so i learnt my lesson not to take pictures of planes at the airport.

p.s. luckily they didnt strip search me :lol: :lol:

Hey, I often go spotting at SYD also.

If at Sydney you are going to the end of runway 16R, make sure you are on the "other" side of the road. I went with a friend and we were asked to move on by the Federal police, who was very friendly. There is a rule that you have to be 3 metres away from the boundary fence <_<

Also, PM me if you want some terrific spots that you can visit at Sydney airport without getting bugged and searched by the police....who are doing a good job!!!

one time I went out into my front yard and took a pair of binoculars and started plane spotting. It was cool. B)

Yeah, they give us thousand and thousand pictures and videos where we are talking about in this and other forums ,every day,every week,every month,every year,the hole life ,and we are very grateful that they are spending many houres to give it us , gratis .

p.s. I am not a spotter