Always lots of crashes at big jet meets.

When you think of it 5 jets in the sky at once is fine - if things are going smoothly, no one has mechanical problems,
everyone behaves themselves, everyone knows what they are doing, the flight line director has everything under control ......

Having been in the situation with a jet on fire on the runway after the engine farted on throttle up, two models stranded on
the strip, another in a critical fuel situation & myself circling at low throttle waiting for a critical fuel situation it can become
a situation brown very quickly. Fortunately the director had a cool head, was an experienced jet pilot and a good organiser
and communicator.

After being a regular attender at jet fly-ins (most fly-ins for that matter) for quite a few years I'm not a huge fan any more.
With available fields & clubs for turbines being very limited in Oz jet flys tend to end up being hosts to the fly every six month
guys, test flights of new models and the only safe way to fly is round & round to avoid other models. When you add in the
hot shots who get bored with flying round & round & decide to liven things up a bit, well, you can guess the rest.

[QUOTE][ I have thought for some time that in the USA pilots go far too long way down the runway for takeoff./QUOTE]

For safety the last fly in I went to had a maximum of 20 metres down wind start for the take off run so the models weren't
travelling at 100 kmh when they passed the pilots box. I guess with a further kilometre of runway available up wind it doesn't
matter much.