[FlightDek]

Why multiple planes and helicopters have been flying in strange patterns over Cheshire - reporting at it's finest

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/multiple-planes-helicopters-been-flying-20425951

[Fellsteruk]

Wow that is a slow news day lol, I mean how is this even news?

One day post license I’m gonna try paint a tree or dog in the sky.... maybe I’ll make the news, I can see the headline now:

“Large bald man in tiny plane draws suspicious love heart over Chester... but who was it for...?”

[RayP]

registered on the jetphtotos database.
This means they are aircraft used for aviation photography.

Haha!

[timjenner]

Good grief, that must be a new low.

At least it's not negative or critical though!

[Nero]

What is the actual point in that? Are they paid by the word?

~ Scott

[Fellsteruk]

Maybe they had an intern join them and offered to let them publisher their first article....

[JAFO]

I was thinking that someone was working from home and a child got hold of their laptop.

[seanxair]

Someone in an X'Air Hawk traced an enormous **** and appendages in that neck of the woods a couple of days ago. They missed that one

[kanga]

Maybe they had an intern join them and offered to let them publisher their first article....

If it's anything like our 'local' paper, nearly all the items published (text and/or photos) will be submitted by freelancers, who will be paid only if the item is used. The art of the submitting freelancer is to offer something with an enticing or exciting (but quite possibly grossly exaggerated) headline (and text embellished with similar 'detail') so that the subeditor will choose it over other submissions that day. On some days the subeditor may receive very few submissions. Perhaps this was such a day.

In 'normal times' the best days for such freelancers will be GCSE and A-level results, secondary school graduation and leaver' balls, and primary schools' Nativity Plays days. On those days there will be lots of different potentially coverage-worthy venues available, and a good chance that all or most will be used, so that proud parents buy the hard copies of the paper ..

[akg1486]

Already eight replies on this thread and not a single one making snide remarks about the use of the Americanism "plane" in the article? That's unusual.