Have to say that i agree in the main with jorgo here, although it is true that there is saftey in speed and hight, and preferably both, it is so often seen at the end of airshows and flyins that some departing pilots canot help but show off. The pilots talking part in the Display may make it look easy but they have put many hours of training and practice in to achive that. I was not at Abbingdon so canot coment on that, but if what you say is true and there was a blustry cross wind, and turbulence near the ground then steep turns near the ground could be very dangerouse. However the build up of speed before climbing in these conditions for some A/C could also be very sensible, so it does depend on conditions. It does remain a fact however that on the whole if you aint been trained to do it, DONT!
From a Display pilot with 1000+hrs
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