I laugh when I read stuff like this. Aircraft crashing on innocent people doing their own business with no interest in what the aircraft is doing is what is being investigated. Because it maybe upsetting you view on your hobby has nothing to do with it . The AAIB has already issued several reports including question marks on the aircraft fitness to fly within the remit of its permit. The CAA has a legal responsibility to enforce the law as stated in the ANO and have to self fund to do so. If it requires more people and money to regulate air shows and civil display authorisations, so be it. Flying over UK airspace must always be safety first, everything else is of secondary importance IMHO (as a professional aviation engineer). It can be nothing else and anyone whom thinks otherwise is deluded.
It’s a sad fact that on many of the forums that the theme seems to be more about what the airshow goers /photographers / enthusiasts are set to lose and not one mention of the real victims in this, the 11 families watching each of their loved ones milestones going by birthdays,Father’s Day, anniversaries etc.
Added to the list are the people left with life changing physical and mental scars.
But the members of one forum are seemingly preoccupied with the chance of much reduced photo opportunities and the eradication of their beloved naughty fields, the other forum is led by an exRAF pilot who hunts down posters who even suggest the pilot may possibly have been to blame, by demanding to know how much military fast jet time they have otherwise they can’t comment……..even former Hunter TWU pilots have been put in their place if they utter the dirty words.
And in all those pages, not one thought or sentiment for the real victims in all this.
If airshows do come a cropper after all this, well then I have my memories, last years events left me with an uncomfortable feeling and airshows will never be the same again.
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