Geez!! (in place of <explative>). No! It is not illegal. You were just dealing with idoit rent-a-cops. Walter DCA ----- Original Message ----- From: "www.airlinesimulation.com" <airline@airlinesimulation.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 02:02 Subject: Photography at HNL > Hello all, > > Well a group of us from Efzed just got back from HNL where we spent a week > in the sun and trying to get some shots for the AIRLINE v4.1 release in > March. > > While we were out taking photos though, a secutiry guard came charging up to > us, sirens blaring, demanding we leave the area and saying he was going to > confiscate my camera. It was only after convincing him we were just mere > mortal Australian Tousists that he did not lock us up and beat us with a > phone book. (Slight exageration but you get the idea). > > At this point I wanted to pluck out the email that was posted here recently > regarding that it is in fact legal to takes photos but a) did not have it on > me and b) not sure it was worth the paper it was printed on by my little > printer here :-) > > So, is it illegal to take photos or not? > > James > www.airlinesimulation.com > > PS Also interesting was the flight home, they deplaned all the transit pax > coming in from YVR and going through to SYD, took them 2 hours re check them > in and put them all through security again. We boarded at 12:15am and had to > wait till almost 2:30 am for the transit pax to reboard the A340.