Originally Posted by
ExAscoteer
Plus ca change!.
Ormond Haydon-Baillie was doing this ****e back in the '70s and Don Bullock in 1980.
It's about time the CAA tightened up the rules for Warbird pilots.
Really, so tar the reputation of all of those that fly ex military aircraft, many who fly legally, professionally and within the rules, perhaps one should look at the Vulcan doing rolls as they were ex RAF crews, one who should have known better. Let's not cast the first stone ok. There are plenty of cock ups out there from service pilots displaying, the words sh+t can happen comes to mind. The Typhoon at RIAT was nearly a Shoreham, just luckily away from the crowd. Just because a pilot is military, do not think they are infallible.
MPN11 a lot of your so called "heroes" are ex RAF, RN and Army.
IMHO Shoreham and the response is all wrong, the main difference at Shoreham was that people not attending were killed and that was a first, those attending by purchasing a ticket agree to a set of conditions laid out in the terms and one is they accept that shows are inherently dangerous so agree to accepting personal liability in attending. The changes however have moved the displays away from the crowd who have accepted that risk, to often outside the airfield boundary where those that haven't reside and they were the main the reason for the changes after Shoreham being brought about, thus it has failed at the first hurdle to protect those people it intended to protect.
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