Reds exit display
Half way through their display at the RAF Wyton families day today the Reds had to stop their display because two gliders were infringing their TRA.
Ther are a number of points worth making about this:
Firstly the commentator spent ten minutes berating these amataur GA pilots who dare to populate the skies above our hallowed land. Sorry but such arrogance is just noy conducive to a sensible working relationship. Some of us have to pay for our aviation experiences and dont have the tax payer funding us.
Now to the rant about the glider pilots concerned. We all forget to check the Notams every now and again. There is little excuse for not knowing what is going on locally and I am assuming that these gliders were local. What is worse is that they appeared to take little heed of the Reds trying to alet them to their presence by flying in the vicinty streaming smoke. Pretty unfortunate that the CAA head of SRG (or whatever it is called these days) was at Wyton. You can be sure he is using every course of acdtion he can to track them down and make an example of them.
Big thimbs up to the Reds themselves however. When Dicky P spotted the interlopers he didnt head off to his next location in a huff but did all he could to clear the TRA in order to resume. Maybe for a civialian event he might not have been so accomodating but he had the nine hawks holding and aiming to be as conspicous as possible in order to try and resume. Top marks Red one.
Otherwise great day - really enjoyable and the BBMF Lanc put ona slightly more sprited show than is normally the case. In my diary for next year.l