With the new restrictions in place at Orly, CDG and Lille-Lesquin regarding photography this also seems to apply to Lyon, a colleague visited there yesterday and was told that taking photos onto the airport from the outside is now a criminal offence and will result in a heavy fine and possibly your equipment being confiscated, on this occasion he was allowed to leave the area without any action being taken, but it makes you think how many places this is going to affect.
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Photography has been banned in and around most American airports for some time now.
Do you remember the British girl a year or so ago in Miami, when she was asked what she had in her bag she joked, "What do you think, a bomb?". She ended up in court, deported, blacklisted etc and was very lucky not to be given a custodial sentance.
Travel especially in the States is a bit of a mine field nowadays and you have to be very carefull what you do. One of our british passengers a few months ago on debark day got fed up of being kept waiting for immigrtation in the morning so he complained rather loudly when he got to the officer. The officer asked him to return at 09.00 hrs when he could explain the situation a bit better.
When he returned they took his green card off him and deported him via the next available flight. He was a lawyer based in New York with a practise and home there.
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*** The sad thing is Squiffy that enthusiasts are the best eyes that the authorities can ever have,but they just cannot see this aspect,all over Europe now big fences are going up at airports,the enthusiastic photographers are being pushed out.
But I think the best advice is that from Bunkerbarge,keep your head down,we live in troubled times.
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Yes, I agree, all the paranoia and restrictions are spoiling it for the genuine enthusiasts...but no matter what they try and do, if someone really wants that picture they will still get it.
I had a guided tour around RAF Valley in the back of an RAF Police car a few years ago, I was taken onto the Flight Line and was allowed to take all the pictures I liked and even stood on the Apron with Hawks Taxi-ing past whilst I took pics and the Pilots were giving me the thumbs up (must have been the Top Gun T Shirt I was wearing at the time
) I was taken all around the base on all the Flight-Lines to take as many pics as I liked.
We got to one part where there was an American F-111 being prepared for next flight. I stood outside the car about to take a pic when the RAF lads said not to as the Yanks get a bit touchy, they said sit in the car and take it. So I got back in, wound the window down and the pic below is the result....Excellent !!!
This pic has been resized to fit on here, I have the much larger version as my desktop background on my pc.
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Mark,I think that if the enthusiasts did not take these pictures as a record then nobody would bother,I always go back to the very first flight of the Whittle engined Gloster E28/39,the authorities never considered it important enough to send along a photographer,guess who took the valuable historic footage we see today ? well it was an ordinary enthusiast who knew better,thank goodness that he had the foresight to do so.Comment
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I agree Barry,
Yet what I find ironic is with all these places getting more touchy about aircraft being photographed, what about photo's being taken of the location of their bases...??? The point I am making here is that satellite up there orbiting the Earth taking Thousands of pics which will surely show up their locations and you can see them on your pc....Yes, Google Earth !!! I bet they didn't think about that one !!!
I am going to see if I can find Area 51 !!!
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Yes area 51 is there,plus scores of other sensitive places that you can zoom right down to within 100 feet or so to see even the gate houses,it makes a mockery out of security,the plans are this coming year to map more large areas that are still under-defined,once completed it will be the biggest and most useful resource of its kind available to the man in the street.Comment
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