spacecadet
2007-02-12, 05:48 PM
This is probably a dumb question, but I was in that big LIRR shutdown on 2/3 and ended up taking the AirTrain out to JFK from Jamaica just to get home a little faster (and I did! About 2 hours before they started up the trains again). I decided to hit up terminal 4 because I've never been there and have always wanted to visit since it opened. I ended up just wandering around the whole terminal, which is not something I thought you could do at all anymore without a ticket.
It then occurred to me that there have to be all sorts of little areas within JFK itself that you could still do some prime spotting from. I saw several little areas in T4 that appeared to look out onto the tarmac, although nothing was there to take photos of at the time I was there. It looked like at least some of the AirTrain stations also overlook the runways and would be prime spots for seeing takeoffs and landings.
Is it just "The Man" that's keeping people from spotting directly from JFK itself? Couldn't you just say you're out there to meet an arriving passenger and thought you'd snap a few photos in the meantime? Are there actual rules for taking photos on the JFK grounds itself? (I can't see how they could possibly enforce that; there's gotta be all sorts of tourists taking photos at the airport all the time.)
I know last time we flew out of T1 on JAL, I got some great shots of our plane from there. We did need to be ticketed to get to the gates but nobody said anything to me when I was taking photos, and I wasn't the only one.
I'm just wondering why everybody seems to go through this hassle with the Nassau and NYPD cops when it seems like you could take photos right at the airport. What am I missing?
It then occurred to me that there have to be all sorts of little areas within JFK itself that you could still do some prime spotting from. I saw several little areas in T4 that appeared to look out onto the tarmac, although nothing was there to take photos of at the time I was there. It looked like at least some of the AirTrain stations also overlook the runways and would be prime spots for seeing takeoffs and landings.
Is it just "The Man" that's keeping people from spotting directly from JFK itself? Couldn't you just say you're out there to meet an arriving passenger and thought you'd snap a few photos in the meantime? Are there actual rules for taking photos on the JFK grounds itself? (I can't see how they could possibly enforce that; there's gotta be all sorts of tourists taking photos at the airport all the time.)
I know last time we flew out of T1 on JAL, I got some great shots of our plane from there. We did need to be ticketed to get to the gates but nobody said anything to me when I was taking photos, and I wasn't the only one.
I'm just wondering why everybody seems to go through this hassle with the Nassau and NYPD cops when it seems like you could take photos right at the airport. What am I missing?