ORIGINAL: radfordc
When you act as a spotter do you watch the plane or is your job to watch for other flight hazards? I would bet that this spotter was admiring the beautiful Zero instead of calling out the helicopter hovering over the runway.
The idea is to scan the entire airspace and keep your pilot informed of what's around him hazard wise.,, you can just watch from a lawn chair sipping an iced tea, if you're standing by a pilot help the guy out