Sorry but they aren’t the same thing at all, one has measured risk and even then the pilot has to demonstrate that his routine is safe to organisers.
The stunt doesn’t seem to have any safety measures at all and therefore organisers can prevent him from displaying.
To clarify I’m not talking about the aerobatics, I’m talking about the stunt.
If you go drag racing at an organised event/show you have to wear a harness and a crash helmet, or else you don’t race, so even if the driver doesn’t mind being thrown clear of a crash and ending up as a mess in front of the crowd he can’t anyway. The same sort of controls are used in airshows, JDKs last post puts things better than any here.
The Mustang/Skyraider duxford event proves more than most how safe airshows are, a potentially fatal accident was avoided became an incident because of two things;
safety of the event, ie having a dead side for circuits, not flying toward a crowd, and from the flyers point of view, ie both well trained and quick thinking enough to deal with situation, including handling an aircraft with a good portion of wing missing and being being quick thinking enough to successfully parachute out.
The stunt guy didn’t have any back up it seems.
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