Robert Moore wrote:

Martin Evans wrote

No, neither do I but I'm convinced he was breaking the law on
this occasion. Maybe he will get away with it. I couldn't be
bothered reporting to the CAA it as I was on holiday a day or so
later and without a reg number there is not a lot that can be
done except trawl through radar recordings perhaps.

Do you report every speeding motorist that you observe to the
authorities?

No, but when I see a plane fly that low - not just a knee jerk
reaction to "hey that plane looks like it's flying low lets report him
and get him grounded", then bank around a hospital complex with a say
a thousand people inside, fly low over a built up area and then have
the audacity to come back a few minutes later and do it all over again
it does sort of provoke one to question the sanity and motives of the
pilot. Over open country I wouldn't have had a problem with it at all
but we are looking at an old aircraft (albeit twin engined) and next
to zero open ground to recover to if it goes wrong. He got away with
it this time, next time he may not be so lucky. Are we supposed to
just ignore events like this and hope they go away?

Was it a B52? that some jerk stuffed into the ground at an airshow the
other year in the US after his fellow pilots had been pleading for
years with his senior officers to ground him for low and dangerous
flying? I'm not anti-flying by any stretch of the imagination by the
way if that's what you are thinking but If this DC3 had fallen out of
the sky then the minimum casualties on the ground could easily be in
the 10-100 range for no justifiable reason. In my book that's not an
accident, and is totally preventable by the thing not been there in
the first place.


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