Hello From An Old Ex-Spotter!
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:16 pm
Hi Guys,
I was a spotter way back in the last century. My interest waned in the early eighties, when setting up my business and such domestically blissful things as marriage and augmenting the world's burgeoning population got in the way.
My interest in aviation, particularly military, has always remained, but buried deep beneath other stuff. And then about a year or so ago, one of my former school/spotter mates got back in touch. He's still a spotter all these decades later, and he put me in touch with a few other school friends/spotters from back then, along with a couple of other spotters.
It was wonderful to be back in touch and to have aviation hauled back up my list of interests.
I can't see myself becoming a full on spotter again, but I now regularly refer to ADSB and Flightradar, and even met up with a couple of those school mates at the Fairford departures day last year. Enjoyed every moment of it and got some great photos - my main aviation interest now.
The current chat about Exercise Cobra Warrior is what brought me here, and it looks like a brilliant resource.
But wow! How things have changed since 1980!
Rob (a Southerner living in Derby)
I was a spotter way back in the last century. My interest waned in the early eighties, when setting up my business and such domestically blissful things as marriage and augmenting the world's burgeoning population got in the way.
My interest in aviation, particularly military, has always remained, but buried deep beneath other stuff. And then about a year or so ago, one of my former school/spotter mates got back in touch. He's still a spotter all these decades later, and he put me in touch with a few other school friends/spotters from back then, along with a couple of other spotters.
It was wonderful to be back in touch and to have aviation hauled back up my list of interests.
I can't see myself becoming a full on spotter again, but I now regularly refer to ADSB and Flightradar, and even met up with a couple of those school mates at the Fairford departures day last year. Enjoyed every moment of it and got some great photos - my main aviation interest now.
The current chat about Exercise Cobra Warrior is what brought me here, and it looks like a brilliant resource.
But wow! How things have changed since 1980!
Rob (a Southerner living in Derby)
