Biscuit74, you say you are surprised that he displayed it under the circumstances.
That's an important point right there. I suspect that too many "good eggs" are doing stuff they really shouldn't but nobody wants to call them out on it, due to multiple other things that they are apparently good at.
What we might be witnessing here is a combination of AH (and others) believing his own press, and also the CAA falling into the same trap, where they think they are policing the airshow business simply because they have some rules and nothing has gone wrong.
When it becomes unthinkable that your hero can't actually walk on water, you are not going to notice when things start to go bad.