So I get up Saturday morning and decide to take a road trip to Philly Int'L for some spotting.  I had a location picked out for spotting finals to 27L and the gates were locked and would not open until 10:00. It's 8:00 now.
So I go up to the UPS cargo terminal and pull in their parking lot and capture so departures from 27R.
I was shooting for about 45 minutes when Police, PHL Officials and the press start rolling into the lot.
I go up to one of the PHL officials and ask him whats going on and he tells me today is EPEX.
He goes to tell me that there will be a simulated crash and rescue equipment from the area will be there.
He also said alot of college students will be crash victims.
I asked him if I can stay and watch and asked if was invited.  I asked him to invite me and he laught.
Then he got a nice City of Philadelphia Police Officer to escort me back to the main road and out of the area.
Before I left he did give me one of the event booklets so here is some of it and I'll post what pictures I took in a bit.

It would have been a cool to see this.  As I was leaving I went past another UPS parking lot on the other
side of there terminal and there had to be close to a hundred firetrucks, ambulance, etc. etc............
If I could have stop I would have got a shot of all the emrgency equipment.
The nice Officer would not let me. ( He really was a pretty cool Cop. )

Too bad. But at least you got a spiffy program... get a load of that!
Were there cocktails, too (in Area 9)?


One thing that's very odd is that they used the name of a real airline for the simulation... does SWA know about this?