I have to say I have more sympathy with smarthawkes view than many of the others.
I have been on the receiving end of a display given by a hugely experienced blah blah blah. He turned up at a fly-in and thrilled us all - and the neighbourhood with his skills (and diesel smoke!).
The end result was he created a firestorm with the locals that almost closed the strip. And throughout that entire process of appeasing the neighbours and the local paper all we got in terms of support was how incredibly skilled he was, how lucky we were to have him turn up.
A promise to report the entire incident to the CAA at least brought a promise he ould never darken our doors again.
Obviously this incident had none of that potential. But it does smack of the same lack of thought and consideration. This is the busiest piece of sky in Europe on that weekend, I'm sure it was much quieter about then - but if these guys are so professional, so egoless why did they bust the rules?
It's just the same as the 'run and break' boys - the rules, are for other people.
Let's see what the CAA investigation comes to.