Mars wrote:
Overall how would you rate the organisation of the events?
I can't comment on how well it was organised, but.
It caused alot of chaos traffic wise. As a resident of the area, the last thing we want to do is sit in traffic that is a CF on a good day. It took me more than an hour to get home on Wednesday from Parow. The amount of swearing coming out of my car would have made the devil break into tears!
As much as I love aviation and anything military, I personally think having it literally on the doorstep of residential areas was not a good idea.
If I was a beachfront resident, I would be pretty annoyed having stands erected right infront of my flat. I would love to know how residents got in and out of their premises when I had just enough space to run through and this was on Tuesday.
Another factor to consider are pets and how the noise affects them, I think this applied more to the Muizemberg residents.
I think about this event in two minds, one is the excitement and my love of anything military, but the other is the chaos it caused for residents and pet owners alike.
One more thing is the sheer cost of this whole exercise. I'm not going to be popular for saying this but I feel it's money wasted and could have been put to better use on an already strained country.
Yes something like this only happens once in a while but as a resident of the area I wasn't too impressed...maybe I'm just getting old!