Surely there is some sort of advice that can be sought BEFORE going to some Countries and doing such things ?
We constantly here of these occurrences, so you would think that people would check up on what could happen first ?
Other Countries are as paranoid as the UK and are quite happy to put you in jail for considerable periods whilst their long winded, biased, and sometimes corrupt legal systems creak along.
After the fiasco with the Greek plane spotters, I would have thought that this was common sense ?
To be fair, the Home Office DO issue an information sheet to spotters with passport applications (and it IS on their website too), plane and bird (mainly the kind of visitors who would routinely carry binoculars).
I was involved, along with the Sunday Times, in getting the greek arrestees released at the time.
I gave the Sunday Times a complete 'fleet' (number and squadron) list of the entire Greek Air Force, taken form my published book 'Euromil', which they published the following week.
The arrested spotters were released a few days later.
Having said that, the Greek authorities had warned these guys about their behaviour on a number of previous occaisons, so they were not exactly 'innocents abroad'.
At the moment I would refrain from castigating the Indian authorities until a few more 'facts' are known about these two.
British spotters DO tend to develop a certain 'arrogance' about their hobby, bus, train, aircraft, birds and so on.
I too have 'spotted' worldwide on aircraft, including Russia, Egypt, all over Europe, and of course the USA, both civil and military, and EXTREME caution IS necessary at all times.
