Tourist, I choose to disagree with you also for the simple reason:
By all means do what makes you tick to get the kick, but................don't inflict that danger on innocent bystanders is what this is all about.
People who white water raft, base jump, parachute, all understand the risk and apply varying levels of defence to protect them from that risk (dependent on how much they value life, of course). but the back lash of those dangers associated to that activity mustn't be inflicted on the individual who is unaware of those risks.
Road users are de-risked to within an inch of their lives, here in the UK: speed limits, white lines telling them where to position themselves on the road, traffic lights sequencing the traffic, crash barriers, police patrols, cameras, crashworthy cars, seat belts, breathalysers and on and on.
We don't see anything like this in the airshow world other than an imaginary display axis and some hay bales or a picket fence.
1 million people die on roads every year.
1 aircraft has crashed into a crowd outside an airfield since how many decades?
Good comparison - death toll of the entire globe Vs the Shoreham incident....nice one
Look - it's all about protecting the innocent, try to think about it from this angle and not from the practitioners perspective, because a dead display pilot who doesn't care if he or she dies doing what they love is a million miles away from a dead passerby who leaves behind a family because he or she popped down the road for a newspaper and got taken out by the debris of a crashed jet which alegedly was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just because another Shreham didn't happen more frequently doesnt declare airshows safe.
We are supposedly 10 years beyond the statistical fact that the San Andreas fault should have slipped again but does San Fransisco do anything about it.......................ignorance is bliss.
