Would you vacate your house for an airshow?

[Woxof38]

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[ahramin]

Maybe. What are you going to do to make it worth my while? VIP passes to the airshow would be a minimum, plus free food while I'm there. As for the practise session, have everyone over for a bbq with something for the kids to do might be a thought. Oshkosh managed to negotiate it this year so it's obviously possible to get people to do it.

[Johnny#5]

Exactly

[HiFlyChick]

But you guys are speaking from the perspective of aviation enthusiasts. What about people that have no interest whatsoever in aviation. What about if you were asked to vacate your home for a flower show? ( or >insert other topic that you have no interest in here< - sorry to you flower enthusiasts ) And to compensate you they offered you all day admission to their flower show and free admission to the tea and crumpets tent....

And just to continue on playing devil's advocate...
My parents were in their home until just recently; they are 87 and 90. They find any excursion longer than an hour or two exhausting and always require a nap in the afternoon. I would find it totally unreasonable to ask them to vacate their home for 3 days. (They have never had an interest in staying in hotels, either)

I think the organizers screwed up - it isn't reasonable to ask someone to leave their home for an entertainment show - I'd be ticked if they asked me to do it for a concert or similar so why should I expect someone else to do it for something that I like that maybe they don't? They should have held it elsewhere or had different show options that didn't require vacating houses.

[ahramin]

Yes, I would vacate my house for a flower show ... maybe. I want my neighborhood to be a welcoming place, and if the flower show makes it worth my while ...

I don't know the specifics of that particular airshow, but when EAA decided it was not acceptable for the largest airshow in the world to pass on the military demo teams, they listened to the landholders and sorted something out.

[Old fella]

I am probably the Dinosaur, the oldfuckosaurus and have seen plenty of airplanes of all shapes/sizes and as well the peoples who fly them(again all shapes/sizes) at airshows. There is no" effing way" in my dwindling years shall I vacate my stately mansion for fast/slow moving few hours of aluminum. I don't care how cold the beer is and how cute the sweeties are at said display. Period, full stop, over and out!!!!

[AirFrame]

As a pilot, i'm with a lot of you. Give me VIP admission to the show, all expenses paid, and i'm in, sure.

My wife would either want VIP treatment at the local spa, or some other non-aviation equivalent compensation.

On the whole, i'd probably chose to settle for a cash payout in exchange for buggering off for the weekend, and just going somewhere with the wife instead.

[Donald]

First off, couldn't agree with you more Old Fella!! Absolutely ridiculous request to vacate your house for 2+ days for an airshow, there'd have to be some pretty sweet compensation to get me to agree to that.

Secondly, kudos to the writer of the headline, for making it appear to be solely the fault of the residents for the show cancellation. The show organizers were broke, that probably had more to do with it than anything.

[ahramin]

They wouldn't have vacated for the whole two days. Just the show.

[Outlaw58]

This scenario is so circumstancial it would be unfaire to paint every situation for vacationer/vacationnee with the same brush. I think the demonstration has already been made by the few responses that the reaction would range from being delighted to do so in exchange for some kind of comensation all the way to "no way jose" with everything in between.

On the organization side of the house, the size and shape of the show box should not be a surprise; 6000ft wide by 3000ft deep has been (and still is AFAIK), with a few exceptions, the norm for over a decade. Organizers should know well in advance whether or not they can fit such a box and if not, exactly who they should contact well in advance to see of they would be willing to accomodate. If not, then tough luck.

This should not come as a surprise to anyone.

JP

edit: Oh and yeah! I would vacate with pleasure in exchange for VIP passes to the show.

[linecrew]

I'd stay at home and sit on the roof with junk food and a cooler full of beer to enjoy the spectacle. I actually did that for the local airshow a couple of years. Had a much better and closer look at the performing aircraft than the folks did at the show!

Edit: back then they didn't worry about moving people, they just went on with the airshow.

[Liquid Charlie]

Maybe it's my age -- lmfaoo but really! I would not walk across a street to see an air show -- waist of time and money and to vacate a house -- well maybe if they purchased it for about twice the value to cover personal items allowing me to leave with only what I could carry -- bah -- humbug!!!!!!

[chinglish]

I would leave for the correct compensation, let it be an airshow or flower show. For the right price anything is for sale.

[cgzro]

Most formation teams except perhaps a small team of prop planes cannot stay over just the waived airshow box area in formation. The snowbirds, blue angles, red arrows, etc all fly multi ship tight formation way outside the waived area and any collision would rain down on whatever city they are flying over as they approach the waived airport area.. So im not sure its even worth having a waived area for these jet teams. I suppose the risk is a bit higher when they change formation or do a loop or roll but that happens often way out of the waived area too or if its in the area there is so much energy involved things would end up miles away anyway if a collision occurred.