phreakf4 wrote:J.Smith photography wrote: ...............especially those concerning the layout of crowd areas, the display line distances, the limitations on vectors during aerobatic manoeuvres and the "pointless, prissy H&S rules" are there to ensure, as far as is reasonably possible, that in the event of a problem with aircraft or pilot, the "burning wreckage" is unlikely to end up in the crowd area.
And rightly so.....
This ties in with the fact that all Duxford airshow crashes have ended up on the runway or outside the airfield where there is likely (although no guarantee) to be less people. What that doesn't address, and CAP 403 acknowledges this, is that the organisers have no jurisdiction whatsoever over who is on that land. Obviously (well presumably!) if there was a large gathering of people for some non airshow reason it wouldn't be considered safe to fly. When there are a relative few people it comes down to a judgement call.