KnowItAll
" If the F3's turn up when they're told to and the event organisers timings are out, how is that the RAF's fault?"
Agreed, partly. Its not entirely the RAF's fault. But the RAF should have the
PR nous to know that a badly-timed fly-past at an event where fly-past's are a considerable, over-the-top irrelevance is worse than not appearing at all.
They should have had someone in the stadium say 'call it off,' or arranged to do it at halftime, or been stacked to come in earlier, as required.
This is the same RAF that so misunderstands the public it had to cancel its whole Spirit of the Air shows after the very first, abyssmal, show at Abingdon last summer.