Crash at Shoreham Air show

[Smollet]

aeropilot said:

Vasco said:

Smollet said:

Documentary on Discovery+ about the crash.

Does it question how on earth he managed to come up with such a pack of excuses.......

I've only seen the trailer for it, and there's some women saying to camera "he was one of the most experienced pilots in the country"...... err, yeah, right oh.

I guess she was part of his defence team.

He was a very experienced pilot with 12000 hrs on a variety of aircraft going by Wikipedia.

[Smollet]

aeropilot said:

12000hrs flying airliners is not experience for flying swept wing high performance ex-mil jets.

He only had 43 hrs Hunter time in the 10 years since he first flew it.
Shoreham was his 6th display in the Hunter for 2015, and he'd only flown ONE practice display at the start of the season. He'd only flown just 2 displays and 2 practices, the year before in 2014, and didn't fly the Hunter at all in 2013.
That's not the CV of 'one of the best pilots in the country'.
Flying airliners and homebuilds is not the same as flying a Hunter. That's not his fault, that's the fault of the CAA. And that's not even mentioning the massive near miss he had flying the JP at Southport Airshow, which was an aircraft he had 900 hrs flying time in...!!
The fact is even before the accident there were people that thought he shouldn't be flying a Hunter in displays, but, again, that's the fault of the CAA, and/or the aircraft owners, not the pilot.

In the documentary it says he’s an ex RAF pilot and had flown Harriers and had had combat experience in Iraq monitoring no fly zones. I’m not taking his side, far from it, just reporting what was stated in the documentary. IMO he shouldn’t be allowed to pilot an aircraft ever again

Edited by Smollet on Sunday 14th January 15:55