Airshow safety ! Airshow safety ! Airshow safety ! Hue and Cry ! No such sustained hue and cry about the British Airways “Glider” at Heathrow but that’s ‘different’, isn’t it, that was just ice in the fuel……….. Such a pity about Old Sarum and – Sabrejet, I know what went on with Old Sarum last year and it WAS a family issue so I suggest that you keep you speculation to yourself when you are not in the loop as to what happened. Even last year before the family issue emerged Slipstream was having huge difficulties trying to adjust display lines, juggle how ‘freeloaders’ were going to be managed, how areas were to be sterilized, where aircraft could fly how they would transit etc, etc, etc. The Hunter incident has given every bureaucrat, politician and naysayer a forum to hear their (often) totally uninformed views on what to do and where to do it. Common sense should have prevailed here. Investigate the incident, find out the root cause – not the speculation – introduce sensible changes if necessary and get on with it. Shoreham was a tragedy to be sure that should not have happened and my thoughts are still with the families of those who passed away and were injured. So it is a tragedy when airliners and other civil aircraft plunge into residential areas but you do not see the same sort of knee-jerk reaction when that happens. Airfields like Heathrow are not suddenly closed down and moved out into the country where that possibility cannot occur. The regulations and restrictions that have been introduced since Shoreham are way over the top and for the most part do not increase “safety” one little bit. Speak with experienced Flying Display Directors and display pilots and see their views. All the new regulations do is give the pollies and bureaucrats their soap box upon which to proclaim “See, look what I have done!” and to justify their existence in places like the Daily Fail.
It is so sad to see that events like Old Sarum and charity shows elsewhere where tiny airshows brought in some cash for worthy causes shall fall by the wayside. Many more shall. Avion ancien you are right, there are no votes in airshows
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