PP
With respect, you're talking nonsense
It matters not a groat whether the crowd is a public gathering or not - the point is, the 250+ invited audience was instructed to stand within 20m or so of the aircraft when the pilot unexpectedly decided to do a towering t/o. Members of the audience could have moved away but (i) I'm not sure where to since the closed hangar was behind them and (ii) I doubt they could have moved more quickly that the debris flying of a crashed R66!
This thread is about what's going on at Heli Air, not a Heli Air/SB bashing session. Given that Heli Air has worked so hard to present itself as a professional organisation, it was a shame to see that discredited with such a crass display of airmanship, particularly after all the rumours about the way it's treated its long serving staff, that's all. I would have been a lot more impressed if the towering t/o was performed 100m away in Echo, the transition was a lot less aggressive and SB didn't go IMC in front of his prospects. Cool? I think not
