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Welcome!

Welcome to Bay Area Spotters. This website is dedicated to spotting in the Bay Area. This page is for assisting new members on the workings of the website.
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On this page:
1. Rules
2. Borders of the Bay Area
​3. About the Website
4. About The pages of this Website
5. Editing the Site
​6. Updates to this page
1. Rules

In order to maintain a well run, civilized website, these are the rules:
1. Do not make unnecessary edits to the website, eg. deleting someone's photos, deleting pages, writing nonsense....(common sense).
2. If you made a mistake/error or need help, please do not hesitate to ask! You can contact me (Andy) at [email protected]  I try to respond as soon as possible.
3. If you want to edit the front page (other than adding an update under recent updates) or the rule page (this page), please ask. On any other pages, you are free to edit incorrect/outdated information, add more information, and add photos to the index but make sure to post what you changed under RECENT UPDATES on the Front Page. Please don't edit the recent updates under the To-do page- I got that.
4. Pages Listed under "4. Pages of this website - NOT COMPLETE" are not ready to be released to public viewing.
5. If you want a domain redirect (eg an email sent  to [email protected] is redirected to your email address) feel free to ask. 

That's about it.
2. Borders of the Bay Area
The borders of the Bay Area are occasionally disputed however if you'd like to add photos of non-Bay airports you're more than welcome too, if they are added to the non-Bay Area airports page(s). (Feel free to make a page for those outside the bay.)
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The following airports are in the Bay Area (or have an index here):
SFO
OAK
​SJC
Santa Clara County (RHV+E16)
Hayward (HWD/KHWD)
Concord/ Buchanan Field (CCR/KCCR)
Livermore Municipal (LVK/KLVK)
Palo Alto (PAO/KPAO)

Stockton Metropolitan (SCK/KSCK)
San Carlos (SQL/KSQL)
NASA Ames Research Center/ Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ/KNUQ)
​Monterey Regional (MRY/KMRY)





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These are not quite in the Bay Area, but if there is significant interest, a photo index can be put up for them
Travis Air Force Base (SUU/KSUU)
Sacramento International (SMF/KSMF)
Sacramento Mather (MHR/KMHR)
Sacramento Executive (SAC/KSAC)
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3. About the Website

Bay Area Spotters is a plane spotting group dedicated to the past, present, and future operations of the San Francisco Bay Area's airports. The website was launched in 2015 and is powered by Weebly. The current plan is: STARTER.

The official domain is currently www.bayareaspotters.com and typing in the old site name: www.bayareaplanespotters.weebly.com should redirect to the current site.

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Our "Old" Logo
Note: Both Logos are used, the old one is from 2016, and the new one is based off of the old GGA one (used with permission).
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The "New" Logo
  4. About the Pages of the Website

As of March 2018 the Bay Area Spotters website contains around 675 pages and 1,300 photos. That's a lot of photos and info!  ̶P̶L̶E̶A̶S̶E̶ ̶N̶O̶T̶E̶:̶ ̶D̶u̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶a̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶z̶e̶,̶ ̶c̶e̶r̶t̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶p̶a̶g̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶f̶e̶r̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶B̶a̶y̶a̶r̶e̶a̶s̶p̶o̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶.̶w̶e̶e̶b̶l̶y̶.̶c̶o̶m̶.̶ ̶
Those remaining on the other site will be transferred back soon (they might still be up).

This is how the site is divided:
Home
   -Welcome page (You are here)
   -To Do (Site to do list and log of all updates - I add that)
   -Uploads (a page to link back photos if you want)
About
   -Contact Us
Airport Histories
Plane Spotting Locations
   -Flight Tracking  - Find an aircraft on the websites
​   -ATC - Links to ATC coms on liveatc.net
   -SFO
   -OAK
   -SJC
​   -CCR
   -LVK
   -ALL OTHER LOCATION PAGES ARE NOT COMPLETE -- 
Plane Spotting/General Airport News
Forum - THAT PAGE IS DEAD, please don't post there.
Photo Index
   -Upload your own - is down, please send email
   -PAX 
      -Pax SFO
      -Pax OAK
      -Pax SJC
   -CARGO
      -Cargo SFO
      -Cargo OAK
      -Cargo SJC
   -BIZJETS (Also includes GA)
      -Bizjets SFO - Working on it
     -Bizjets OAK
      -Bizjets SJC
   -AERIALS - NOT COMPLETE
   -SMALLER AIRFIELDS
      -Moffett Field
​      -Buchanan Field Aircraft
      -Hayward Aircraft
      -Monterey Aircraft
      -Livermore Aircraft 
      -San Carlos Aircraft
   -Special Liveries
      -Retrojets
      -Southwest Special Liveries
      -Alaksa Special Liveries
      -Aeromexico Logos
      -Westjet Disney
   -Other Airports 
      - Long Beach
      -Chicago O'Hare
       -(Coming next month) - MSP, LAX, MDW
   -Photo Index (Historic Photos organized by type) 
      -SFO
      -OAK
​      -SJC (Not Complete)
-Historic Photos
      -Historic photos are listed by the photographer, then aircraft. This section existed before the February change, and it will stay           (pages by photographer) that way, except for Richard Silagi's and Kerry Taylor's photos which are also in the archive.
       Nov. Update - The archives and historic photos will be merged, but both index pages will be kept.
       Jul. Update - Only some pages will be merged. Most will stay.

      -The pages below (8.14.15, 11.20.2015, etc) are not to be edited - the're pages that were displaced when the index was added-I'll group all these archaic pages together soon. 
   -SFO Safety Training Aircraft NOT COMPLETE
-Traffic Updates - Changes to airline scheules at SFO, SJC, OAK
​      -Traffic updates for other Bay Area Airports
      -Old Traffic Updates
-Logbook - Rare/unusual Aircraft that visit the Bay
      -Previous Years
      -Logbook PHOTO INDEX - Photos of them- 
-Links

​As you can see, most of the pages are under the photo index....
5. Editing the Site

Feel free to email me ([email protected] or [email protected]) the photos if you like.

Please also see the Weebly help section
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Adding photos: Drag the photo icon under basic onto the page. Then click the "add image" and upload the photo. 
Adding pages: 
                          -To the photo index:
                                                             Make sure the aircraft is not already listed under a page, if there is no page, continue.
                                                                -Press the plus button and add the page's info to the page information secton(on the left side).
                                                             Save the page and drag it to where it needs to go (organized by airline code)
                                                              If the page does not line up with the box no matter what you do (see image), reload the page                                                                      (They may have fixed this)
                                                              If it does, don't worry about this. Add images and photo info. 
                                                              Create the link to the appropriate index page.
​6. Updates to this page
4/23/18 New Logo added
7/14/17 Clarified rules and site map pages 480-650
​12/11/16 Shortened Rules and
Explanations​
11/8/16 Updated Sit pages and photo count to 700
​7/27/16 Added bayareaspotters.weebly.com notes
6/16/16 Updated Page number from 300-480
6/13/16 Updated Photo index
​6/5/16 Updated photo index and Bay Area airports list
5/28/16 Domain connected to Weebly.
​5/26/16 Page launched
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  • Airport Histories
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  • Locations
    • ATC
    • Flight Tracking
    • San Francisco
    • Oakland International
    • Mineta San Jose
    • Buchanan Field
    • Livermore
  • Photo Index
    • Passenger Aircraft >
      • Passenger Aircraft SFO
      • Passenger Aircraft SJC
      • Passenger Aircraft OAK
    • Cargo Aircraft >
      • Cargo Aircraft SFO
      • Cargo Aircraft OAK
      • Cargo Aircraft SJC
    • Bizjets >
      • Bizjets SFO
      • Bizjets OAK
      • Bizjets SJC
    • Smaller Airports >
      • Moffett Field
      • Buchanan Field Aircraft
      • Hayward Aircraft
      • Monterey Aircraft
      • Livermore Aircraft
      • San Carlos Aircraft
    • Tower Tour
    • Special Liveries
    • Other airports >
      • Long Beach
      • Chicago O'Hare
    • Photo Index Archive >
      • SFO Photo Index Archive
      • OAK Photo Index Archive
      • SJC Photo Index Archive
    • Accidents
    • Historic Photos
    • Preservation
  • Archived Pages
    • Traffic Updates >
      • Past Updates
    • Logbook >
      • Logbook 2018
  • Links
    • SFO Show
    • Dioramas