Originally Posted by
Flap62
An average of 12 hours per year over the last five years? And he thought it sensible to display a high performance jet at low level? Whilst it is undoubtably tragic that he lost his life it is all to easy to dance round the obvious. It Is a huge failing of supervision that this was ever allowed to happen but it ultimately rests on the individual. Just how many of these "professional" pilots are trying their luck every week? It is simply not acceptable to say that it was a fault of the system. This pilot should have stopped himself from ever getting airborne never mind relying on the "system" to protect them.
Not sure I agree with you here f62. How many of us, everyday in our cars, knowingly take risks safe in the knowledge we are on the right side of the law (but conscious that what we are doing is wrong or beyond our capabilities)? The issue here most definitely IS "the system" which allowed those circumstances to occur, in my opinion.