I don` know about my local airports, but  what you`re saying sounds promissing.

Now, If MS only had a couple of people reserarching to determine that highways do indeed cross rivers via bridges!

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Hmmm, Try maxing out the detail, and mabe you may find your bridges I havnt found any bridge-less roads that cross rivers yet



edit---- Yes, I have seen some MS ppl at the north bay airport (CYYB)  When I saw them, they wer just entering the control tower

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Hmmm, Try maxing out the detail, and mabe you may find your bridges I havnt found any bridge-less roads that cross rivers yet

I've tried that and still can't see the Mackinaw Bridge connect the lower and upper peninsula of Michigan!
And that bridge is one of the great wonders of the world!

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Were you sure that was a legitimate Microsoft ID he presented to you? 

Unfortunately, these days people doing detailed observations and documantation of aircraft traffic at airports would seem a tad "suspect" until proven otherwise.  I too would have thought that such a crew from Microsoft would have been accompanied by airport securtiy people.....or at the least, security would have issued info on it to all airport departments.

It sounds like you are on the FD for the airport?


best,

...................john

It's quite possible this was a freelance researcher on a contract to M$. On the other hand it would be a convenient excuse for roaming around an airport for whatever reason. I'm not suggesting he had suspicious motives. There's understandably a little paranoia on airport security right now but it's been like this in the UK for years. I remember back in the 60s it was comparatively easy to get through the security gates of Gatwick if you were in a van & delivering something. Simply stop at the gate & get a temporary pass. Once through the gate you could go almost wherever you wished without arousing too much interest. It was much more difficult to get out.

you guys might have misunderstood, they wern't on the airport property. I saw them outside of the fence, and yes the ID was real, becuase at the same time, someone from the McDonalds across the street called 911 reporting a suspicious subject by the airport, the airport Deputies checked his ID out and everything was fine. Just to clear all the conspiracy theories up.  have a good one!

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How can some one simply film Cessnas taking off and landing be considered "suspect"? Honestly people, how many of you can honestly say that you've never taken photo's of aircraft or shot film of them. There are severl people on these forums that regularly go to airfields and take pictures of the aircraft comming and going and do you consider them to be suspect too? So why should a man from Microsoft be accompianied by security personel just because he's filming planes?

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Those tourists were arrested for spying because supposedly they had been taking photo's of Greek Air Force hardware. The Greek government went way over the top with that one.

And I say again, why should someone, with innocent intentions, be escorted around the place when all he needs to do is shoot film of planes taking off and landing?