Well done Paul and Tim (or whoever you are!) for having an awful flying display. Some great aircraft, but very scatty, with long gaps of a not a lot happening.
Well done Paul and Tim (or whoever you are!) for having no toilets open on the Friday despite there being (allegedly) 20,000 air cadets on site, 100’s of traders and however many spotters. Why weren’t they open?… Because RIAT wouldn’t pay for them to be open on the Friday.
Well done Paul and Tim (or whoever you are!) for having very few dustbins. Er… FOD?
Well done Paul and Tim (or whoever you are!) for having vehicle security checks. But tell me… a security check that involves some guy lifting your bonnet, and opening the back door of a trailer that the packed full of stuff… What is the point in that? If you are going to conduct security checks, you need to be using sniffer dogs. I didn’t see one. It just made the whole thing a farce… A total waste of time.
Well done Paul and Tim (or whoever you are!) for the 100 years of flight… That was fantastic… Well done!
All in all, I thought the static aircraft were very good, but the flying was poor, and there are still so many issues that RIAT need to address, despite being told every year! I think this year people showed their frustration with their feet… There was no one there!