Trumper yes you are quite correct, the flightline now has to be 230 yards from the crowdline therefore taking it outside of many airfield boundaries and over local roads. Due to CAA edicts these will probably need to be closed, you wont believe how hard that is and how much Councils’ want just to say yes. You then have to employ a Traffic Management company approved by the Council to police it during hours of operation. You really will get a better view outside of the airfield except the airshow cannot take place as there are people outside of the airfield who might be at risk.%
+1. Don’t forget that you have to get all the ‘stakeholders’ to buy into any road closures, ( Stakeholders means Police, Fire, Ambulance, local bus and Taxi services and so on), and then get the residents views, and make sure that the road closures don’t impact on any of the emergency response times (which would mean cancelling the Airshow) and that they are all happy with the diversions and the impact on traffic and any issues that would arise and that the residents are happy with any diversions (unhappy residents would mean cancelling the Airshow) and that the local council’s Safety Advisory Group are happy with the risk assessment that you can only complete once you have gathered all the responses from all the Stakeholders and their various departments and the residents, and occupiers and/or users of ‘Vulnerable infrastructure’ even though you can’t get a definitive answer as what exactly ‘vulnerable infrastructures’ means and then you can submit your application to the CAA who after all that work and effort still might reject the application and cause you to start the paperwork all over again. Only there isn’t time so you have to cancel, only now you’ve passed the cancellation deadline with the aircraft operators and you lose thousands of pounds of deposits, and the CAA application fee is non-refundable, so you lose that too.
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