aaron0288 wrote:Thoughtful_Flyer wrote:Brevet Cable wrote:And in the event that an incident happened which affected them , they'd have been well and truly stuffed.
And said incident could have been anything -- a collision between vehicles , someone falling over or being hit by a car , getting food poisoning , burning themselves , anything.
Quite.
One also wonders if the school / PTA or whatever are properly covered for their airshow enterprises. I would have thought it is stretching it at best.
There's no way in hell the school would be doing what it's doing if it wasn't supposed to. I mean it's a school near an airfield. Not like it's any different to any other day with Spitfires etc flying over.
The school has been doing it for years, I'm sure some sort of dialogue must have taken place between IWM and them regarding what they do.
Don't forget that the warbirds et al have to avoid flying directly over Duxford village, either flying behind or cutting in front of it so perhaps they might not fall within the same criterion. How far do you go, for example? If an aircraft is transiting and something goes wrong, and it happens to be overflying a village fete, what then? There has to be some margin for error. As far as the school is concerned, they are hosting a bit of a BBQ and fund-raiser, and an airshow happens to be going on nearby - I know that's very crude, but the point is there (I hope).
Leaving all the above ropey hypotheticals (it's been a while since I was writing my essays on trespass and the like..
) aside for a second, one thing I always ask in relation to the naughtyfield question is how does the cricket club at Cosford manage, or Totterdown/Rhymes at Fairford, or whatever at pretty much place outside of any show? Again, they've been doing it for years and years, I'm sure the shows will have had some sort of correspondence with them on the issue. Seems thoroughly irresponsible if they haven't, even if it's just a friendly "you'll need insurance to do this" warning from the organisers.
I went to the naughty field for a bit on Saturday whilst killing time before going to OW, before doing Duxford "proper" on Sunday, and the police sort of rode up and down Grange Road on bikes, looked into the fields, saw people there and carried on. People in the fields, despite the six foot fences clearly weren't their concern. They seemed to be making sure the road was kept clear.
I couldn't help wondering whether those fences across access points would hinder the access for emergency vehicles from Grange Road if something were to happen? I may be wrong, but isn't that the one of the reasons they close the road/take such measures in the first place? I'm probably missing a point, but it seems like they are hitting themselves in the nose to spite the face to me...
There were private security walking up and down the road (or at least I saw two different guys) who seemed to care a bit more about those in the field, but they never asked anyone to move along or anything.