Thoughtful Flier
I am NOT trying to justify bad behaviour because of stress.
But I do think that people who are able to handle constant stress ie the Arrows are unlikely to be the quiet reserved type and are possibly prone to over exuberant ( stupid ) behaviour !
Over the years at flying display socials and the Akrotiri OM I experienced at first hand examples of the Reds getting up peoples noses. They particularly seemed to have a dislike of ‘Heavy ‘crews - Ie us!
We were quite able to ignore them and on occasion have a stand up discussion ( row)with them - I guess that WRAFS -who usually were not shrinking violets - should have been able to do the same if they were on the wrong end of unwelcome attention / abuse!
However most of us just treated them as controllable ,boastful and at times juvenile social prats and were still able to appreciate their skills in the air and give them SOME slack!