What is likely to happen from this tragic event? I would imagine that Reno Follows car racing and place spectators further and further away from the action to a point that the thrill factor diminishes.
I'm pretty sure that post the Ramstein airshow crash, manouveres towards the crowd were prohibited. I guess at 400+ knots, any distance of less than a mile from the course to the crowd is purely academic if there is a loss of control.
In the UK (and fairly similar in certain other nations) the rules are, as per
CAP 403 :
- [Display Line distance from Crowd Line] Above 300 kt IAS 200 metres [flypast] 230 metres [aerobatics]
- Over CAP403, typically "or 450m display line with on-crowd vector above 300kts"
Whether normal air display rules are applicable to Reno type events is a subject for debate, but hopefully this provides some form of answer to the pointa quoted above
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