Originally Posted by
WideScreen
And, regarding "blaming" the airboss: Forget about this. These things happen that fast, that there is no opportunity to monitor a bag of data from a whole bunch of aircraft, draw conclusions about WHAT is (potentially) going to happen, AND then decide to intervene, AND define a proper action, AND assume that the intervention will receive the party being intervened AND assume the intervened party will act accordingly. All in real-time. No way.
Sorry mate but I have to disagree here. The things you describe above are exactly what happens in a busy mixed-traffic circuit at any military airfield. I spent 6 years juggling metal at Boscombe Down which often had multiple aircraft types flying and landing in all directions. Is the Airboss a controller or just a mouthpiece?
Anyone controlling aircraft is fundamentally aware that you do not make aircraft cross paths unless there is vertical, lateral or time separation.
If that airboss told the fighters, who were on the inside of the turn radius, to come closer to the crowd than the bombers, thus crossing their paths without any height separation, screwed up by initiating what followed. BUT ultimately it was VFR flight and the responsibility lies wholly with the pilots.