"Randy Aldous" wrote:

I think another reason why one would want to avoid the video option
and/or stay away from anything that would allow the S-turns to be
avoided (however foolishly) is the fact that an aircraft, or any large,
slow moving vehicle, for that matter, is a lot harder to detect when
coming straight at you. S-turns, no matter how small (leaving the
pilot's visibility factor alone for a moment,) will make you much more
visible to those in front.

I dunno... seems to me that any pilot who has the ability to miss
seeing and/or hearing a warbird coming at them would probably have
already taken himself out of the gene pool. ;-)

Mark "the ground shakes and the sky darkens" Hickey