Brief it - Fly it.
Limits are there for reasons, especially in display / formation / aerobatics.
History is full of examples of what goes wrong when you break those limits and many people have died - including "civilians" on the ground.
The Thunderbirds themselves have suffered a number of tragedies as a result of deliberate or inadvertent deviation from SOP / minimums including a horrific formation crash that wiped out the whole flight. (*edit - see comment at bottom of post)
I can understand the USAF having zero tolerance of deliberate deviation. She'd been in the job two weeks and she broke the rules twice!!??
* edit - I stand corrected Gums - I had recalled that there was the suggestion that the lead had entered below the required datum but had not remembered the actual conclusion of the inquiry about the elevator linkage - Sorry!
Last edited by OvertHawk; 8th May 2022 at 10:55.
Reason: correction