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Old 30th Mar 2016, 20:32
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I don't have a problem with the arrests of the jumpy house operators. It's possible that they knew it was too windy, or it may have been a sudden gust. That can be sorted out. However, I doubt they had airspeed indicators or more than a tiny fraction of the training even a lowly private pilot like myself gets. In the end, the wind did it, they didn't actively cause the accident. They can only be guilty of failing to anticipate the hazard.

Shoreham, on the other hand... According to the AAIB, the Hunter "appeared to be responding to the pilot's control inputs".

The Hunter ended up exactly where he put it. Other control inputs, other outcomes.
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