This thread is very funny.
Some of the comments are so pompous and predictable.
An earlier thread about the water-skiing Harvards :
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...nuine-not.html
The discussion was 9 years ago, when they were not well-known outside South Africa, but it's still worth reading for the varying responses at the time.
Most posts were made before the truth was revealed.
Some posters still had doubts even after it was revealed.
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Okay.... When the next pilot tries it, because they saw the video, and it does not go well, can we castigate the Ullswater pilot then?
Certainly not.
That would be absurd.
I don't subscribe to the view that everyone should be prevented from doing something risky (which the Ullswater incident may/may not have been - I don't know enough about the pilot or the circumstances to form an opinion) in case someone else tries to emulate and things go wrong.
And, in general, provided no-one else is put at risk I wouldn't prohibit adults from risking their own lives.
There's a grey area re informed risk, but that's a separate and more complex issue.
eg Years ago, I carried a passenger during displays and was a passenger during displays but that has been prohibited for a long time.