ORIGINAL: Kwigen
I sincerely hope you are kidding. While low passes look cool, I have yet to see a single spectator not amazed by 3D.
A few of us flew at a 4th of July picinic a few years ago. One of the guys there was terrific at 3D so he goes out and does his thing. It was the first time I had seen 3D in person and I'm thinking I do not want to following his flying. He landed to a few people clapping so I figure what the heck. The only thing my poor little Hots would do was high speed passes and the like. The whole time I was flying I could here the crowd responding, the faster and lower I flew the more they liked it. The 3Der couldn't believe it, we figured the crowd wanted to see the "little" airplanes do the same thing the big ones do. So now anytime we draw a crowd we do high speed passes.
My theory is that the non-flier has no idea the level of skill it takes to fly good 3D. They just see the 3D plane sit in one spot and as one spectator said,"flop around".
I guess each area is different. We have some insanely skilled 3D guys at our field. There is a yak 54 (35% or so) that hovers that thing 6 inches off the ground while torque rolling it. He does rolling circles all day that are flat. People are just in awe of this massive plane doing remarkable things. I think seeing a little profile 3D is one thing, but seeing some of these giants 3D is quite another.