Went on Saturday, arrived at 08.00 via M4 - my observations were:
From M4 the Park and Ride (P&R) pretty well signposted, however, field used for parking was deeply rutted and some people with buggy's and elderly people nearly had some nasty accidents.
There was a very long walk from the P&R to the show entrance, again the surface was pretty poor. However, little queues at the entrance and in without a delay.
Static display was good, however, copious Ice cream vans were parked in the way of what would have been some good photos e.g VC10 XV106. 100 years of flying was the highlight for me, well laid out and very interesting.
Biggest issue was the lack of toilets, there were long queues and awful scenes of people thumping the doors and pushing in through desperation - this shouldn't happen at such a civilised event. I spoke to the First Aid staff who said they were inundated with people asking where more toilets were. Come on RIAT, buck your ideas ideas
I thought the flying display was patchy, with many long gaps and was generally disappointing. Its difficult to explain why, but it just seemed rather predictable and unexciting.
I saw many gaps along the public lawn flightline....and I did pay £7.00 for a programme and although its for charity, I thought it was extreme having flicked through it.
The return P&R was somewhat shambolic due no bus stop sign in place and traffic suddenly coming head on towards the bus!!
In general, I was disappointed, however, I appreciate that many people gave up their time to provide the event which had plus's - the traffic, lack of queues and static dispaly but several major minus's - No.1 being lack of toilet facilities and poor flying programme. I know that the RAF have been 'busy' lately, in fact my wife is still flying 'overseas' with them and their participation was better than expected.
So 6 out of 10.