catch

A good catch is the payoff of a session — the diversion that was not on the schedule, the special livery that turned up unannounced. TailzIN's planned rarity scoring is built around how few spotters have logged an airframe, which is a way of measuring exactly this.

This term does not auto-link inside captions: "catch" is ordinary English and a verb far more often than it is a noun about aircraft.

Nearby in Slang

• bizjet — A business or corporate jet.
• blocked — Spotter slang for a photograph ruined by something in front of the subject — another aircraft, a ground vehicle, a light mast.
• frame — An individual aircraft, short for airframe — and, confusingly, also a single photograph.
• hunting — Actively seeking out a particular aircraft, livery or type rather than photographing whatever appears.