Originally Posted by
Bill Greenwood
I think the airshow is like going into a bar. If you go into a high quality restaurant its often quiet or some low even classical background music, and people can actually talk to each other. But if you go into cheap a bar/restaurant, many of them have music blaring so loud, either people dont talk or end up yelling at each other just to be heard.
Someone has sold the owners the fallacy that customers are going to spend more if you barrage them with noise. Its false , a bar in California tried it without the blaring music and found customers loved it, stayed longer, and spent more.
The airshow is the same, instead of letting people focus on the plane, its sounds and manuervers, someone gets on the loud speaker and blares out a lot of cr.p about how great the pilot or plane is and often how it is supposed to be the only one of its kind in the world. There are some acts that I might watch if they didnt have the used car salesman yelling at us. When the Blue angels started, I went into the building to avoid the noise but could still here their announcer going at it. Their act actually was not as bad noise wise as I thought it would be, because they make a lot of long passes , not just at show center like an acro box, so there is some quiet between passes.
The best acro act that I saw was a small plane with light green wings, dont know who, but it was well flown and not hard on your ears. The worst act noise wise, was the biplane with the jet on it. Id donate if someone took up a collection for him not to fly. I see the excellent flying of Aeroshell , it would be better without the whining prop noise from overspeed tips, just pull the rpms back a bit.
Like bars, I often find that the less the plane is, the more the pitchman yells about it.