The downside to this is, in the public eye, a certain amount of dung flung sticks.
About the only folk who avoid the dung flung here are the airlines, everything else with a propellor from a RFDS B200 and smaller will attract the stigma of light aircraft.....and all those who fly them are cowboys.
We all know this is far from the truth, but that will be a perception that is in the wild and uncontrolled.
What sort of nutcase 60 year old, who had an expired Student certificate and an unregistered plane would fly it, anywhere near public view, let alone buzzing strangers. Unfortunately this moron has probably been breeding some of those other morons we all compain about. We are not taking them out of the food chain soon enough.
Once upon a time aviation was a bit harder to participate in if you were an uneducated bogan. Now it seems that is not the case. Not only do the airlines have a bogan problem, but the various flying organisations do too.
Boganus Moronus. 