Official JP.Net Meeting Number 2 Ideas

[ptbodale]

Your Dad eats at McDonalds in LHR? For crying out loud go to a pub and have something to eat.

[egll]

Seriously guys, forget London it is far too expensive. One of the great things about living here is that everywhere else in the world is cheaper .

Luton is no good unless you want to shoot easyJet all day or bizjets all day. Stansted is terrible for spotters-the most anti-spotter airport in the UK I would say. LCY is a part time airport and there are no decent spots, LGW is great if you like 737s and the Euro-charter market but again it has few good spots and 0 good photo spots unless they are using 08 runway.

LHR is where it is all at, traffic from all over the world and variety like no other airport I know. The WX is very unpredictable though, at any time of year it could be warm and sunny or wet and cold.



Matt

[MauwieAir]

still say AMS

[Longreach747]

forget LHR from an Australian POV, we get 35pence for a dollar and if the bigmac meal costs 4 quid thats almost $12 australian, i been to london and the first thing i did was get on a plane back out! far far to $$$$

Tokyo is not as bad as claimed, food is cheap as is accomodation at the airport hotels.

another good one that i am suprised has not been mentioned is Frankfurt, plenty of traffic and a good variety too!

i think a destination from each continent is a good way to narrow it down, with the exception of the USA.

so how about this

Nrth America-Vancouver, which i will sus out in dec
Sth America- i am not really inclined to go there, traffic is pretty boring
Asia-Tokyo Narita, Haneda, Kansai and Itami
Europe-Frankfurt
Oceania-Sydney

[ATrude777]

How about Bagdad

Seriously, the only airport i havent seen mentioned much is Bombay, India, Pete could give us a tour and I know he would love to go there as a jp.net meetup.

Also, would a place in Russia be good?

We should meet in the bahamas, as its central between eruope and N.America.

Some mentioned Frankfurt, I think Germany would be a wonderufl place to visit, belgium or Munich are good places to visit, or hell even Spain!!

Alex

[Crazy764]

Indeed, Germany is a nice place.

However, I heard the FRA observation deck is shutting down soon?

[Simpleboy]

forget LHR from an Australian POV, we get 35pence for a dollar and if the bigmac meal costs 4 quid thats almost $12 australian, i been to london and the first thing i did was get on a plane back out! far far to $$$$

Tokyo is not as bad as claimed, food is cheap as is accomodation at the airport hotels.

another good one that i am suprised has not been mentioned is Frankfurt, plenty of traffic and a good variety too!

i think a destination from each continent is a good way to narrow it down, with the exception of the USA.

so how about this

Nrth America-Vancouver, which i will sus out in dec
Sth America- i am not really inclined to go there, traffic is pretty boring
Asia-Tokyo Narita, Haneda, Kansai and Itami
Europe-Frankfurt
Oceania-Sydney

Ive mentioned Frankfurt once. It just got ignored.

[ASpilot2be]

I think Anchorage is a great airport, there is quite a variety in traffic, old, new, big, small, etc.

[Chasen_KSFO]

They said no US,but ANC is good. what about Rio? I think they have interesting traffic.

[MauwieAir]

anchorage is waaaaaay to cold :P

[Chasen_KSFO]

the best advantage of anchorage, there is at times 20 hours of daylight in alaska !!! So u could shoot like everything that comes in there if u come in the right time of the year!

[ASpilot2be]

anchorage is waaaaaay to cold :P

In the winter yeah. Not now though

[Dan L]

Manchester ( EGCC/MAN) cos it has good spotting facilities but on problem is that you need a car or bike to get around!!
Dan

[Spotter]

so list now (please be gentle if I miss anything):

SYD
AMS
FRA
ANC
LON
MIA
ATL
MAN

[v1images]

Kevin, might be calling you in the next few days.

Come on guys get your suggestions in!