Moggy’s Rule 7

insert ” and airbags radios”.

Bit harsh that Charlie you cannot hear the tinkle of earbuds above the noise of rustling crisp bags camera shutters and women talking to someone three rows back who seems to be hard of hearing. 😀

Rule 11. Insert “crushing drink cans and crunching plastic water bottles.”

From my mobile which is not an iPhone. Just thought you would want to know that as Apple (wash my mouth out with soap and water) seem to think it’s important.

I think my post was a little misleading, CD, as it unintentionally made connections which shouldn’t have been there.
And it was purely a report on what he said.

He made one direct comment mentioning forums.
He made a couple of what I took to be indirect comments relating to forums, that may be wrong.
He did say he would be silent so we could listen to the engines in the displays.
When he said that in relation to the Vulcan there was a loud round of applause.
The crowd did mainly consist of supporters of VTTS.
He did apologise if we had already heard his display patter many times before.

My personal view is that he gave an excellent commentary.
I have no issues with repeating commentary at all there must be different people at each air show apart from the hard core air show followers.
The commentators presumably make themselves available for the work and like any job should be competent to do it.
If you are a foreign national giving a commentary in the UK you should be at least understandable in English.
I do not think it is relevant to say you couldn’t do it, if you engage somebody to do a job you expect him to do it competently.
In my view take off and landing can be very much part of the display.
I accept the need for a communication system that caters for all those who are attending the show.
IMHO it would seem that a split system or headphone/wifi system would meet everybody’s needs, or more likely a combination of both.
A large number of foreign nationals attend Legends and RIAT and may not speak English. A pre-recorded personal system in their language triggered as the display progresses.

This thread was started IMHO about commentators who never stop talking even over the display about matters not directly related to the display taking place.

However, any person who arranges the show and provides many of the aircraft has every right to engage as a commentator anybody he wishes, after all it is his show.

Surely the purpose of this thread is to provide constructive criticism with the intention of improving the enjoyment of the show, although I agree it does not seem so at times, but then that is the nature of all forums, and for fellow forumites to gauge the strength of support for any observations made.