A colleague has a house that overlooks Chivenor and his son is an aviation spotter - he told his dad what the Chinook was doing.
You can start with name calling if it makes you feel clever but the Catterick crash started with 'high spirits' and 'interesting flying manoeuvres' and ended in tragedy. If the lessons still haven't been learned and the wire strike was the same flight as the one my mate's lad saw then getting it out there is the best thing to do to prevent another poorly disciplined crew taking other people with them.
It may not have been connected with the wire-strike flight at all and everything may well have been squeaky clean and above board - perhaps the SI will answer those questions.
and when it does, you can come on and make a full apology. We do possess more than one Chinook in the UK orbat......
A pilot of your experience knows way better than to take the opinion of a ‘colleague’s son’ and chuck it up here. That’s just doubling down on the first comment about ‘stunting and bunting’.
I don’t know what the Chiv crew were doing and neither do you. All I do know is that authorised advanced handling can take place anywhere where it is deemed safe to do so. A flat airfield seems entirely reasonable to me. That doesn’t imply ill discipline as per the Catterick Puma.