Queens visit late October

[Stephen Brown]

I'm also advocating a sensible approach to this that looks at all the sources where the same information could be reasonably gathered.

Where any media outlet can smell blood in the water and beat up a story with a fair dose of uninformed rhetoric and naivety so that the pure facts get distorted then a sensible approach probably won't be forthcoming.

[A McLaughlin]

Chris is right that most of the informtion can be found if someone is willing to do their homework, but I guess the policy is not one of prevention but one of mitigation, i.e. to make it as hard as possible...

For example, at the Super Hornet arrival at Amberley last week, all media and photographers were told to put down their cameras when the aircraft were taxiing straight towards us because of "security", i.e. they don't want pics taken of the radar blockers (or 'devices') deep inside the aircraft's intakes.

But when the VIP crowd and guests came up to the fence, they were filming with cameras, phones, videos etc, some of which was pretty good quality gear.

Also, three years ago when I visited the US Navy base at Lemoore in California, there were no restrictions on what I could photograph, and a US Navy guy actually pointed the radar blocker out to me!


Re the Queen's arrival in CBR on the 777, it was well known days before that she would be arriving at 1750. We were outside on our office roof camera in hand ready, and she came in about four minutes early. It wouldn't have been hard for someone with less honourable intentions to have done the same with something else that shoots...

[Rowan McKeever]

Ahh OK... I didn't realise it was so well 'published' (and obviously I'm not that great at finding these things!).

There's an interesting article in the West Australian today by Geoff Thomas (who else!) about the flying arrangements for the Queen... the configuration of the 777, etc. Geoff talks about 30 of the Queen's staff arriving in PER 90 minutes ahead of the BBJ she will travel on. Would they be on another 34SQN aircraft or something chartered?

[chrisb]

It's nice to see the Media telling us the queen's exact departure and arrival times for this afternoon. Didn't they declare this a security risk a few days ago?

[Andrew P]

Note flightradar24 is currently not covering any flights in WA at present,and has been like that for a few hours

[JamesW]

Flightradar 24 has always had bad/un-reliable coverage for Perth.

Planefinder.net has had all ADS-B a/c operating around Perth displayed, include EVY32 and REGL1 today, aswell as a DNGO King-Air yesterday.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Plenty of Perth aircraft on Planeplotter at present.

[Brenden S]

FL24 Perth has been down for the duration of CHOGM

[David Z]

Time to go home...

[Stuart Trevena]

Hi All,

Was the Queen flying Direct to LHR or was that just a cover?

If so, does the B772ER have the range of is it just pushing it a little.
and what route would be the best for her return home?

Stuart