Originally Posted by
N1003U
I also didn't realize that FRA was such a hotspot for plane-spotting. These three spotters from the UK had an impressive array of notebooks, aircraft specification manuals, and even a special receiver to listen in on ATC and feed data to a laptop application that tracks arrivals and departures (note VHF antenna sitting on the ledge on the window). not to mention the largest pair of binoculars I think I have ever seen (in the hands of the person with his back to the camera):
Does anybody have any thoughts on using receivers in Germany? I have read that it's not exactly legal here, but I don't know a) if that's 100% true, and b) whether the police actually care about it. I live close to FRA, and go to the FRA terrace on the odd occasion, so would be nice to be able to listen.