Quidditch, the future of competitive flying?

As time has passed recreational aviation has become more of a sport, and less of a hobby. The reason for this is simple. In today's world, flying around at 110mph in a cessna is no longer considered daring or exciting. People want more excitment and more competition. We see more and more competitive flying venues every year.


The most interesting of these, and the one that may be the closest to Quidditch, is the sport of extreme aerobatics competition. You are awarded points for completing certain manuevers and flying through "hoops" in the sky. While this is still a far cry from the game of quidditch (a flying game played on soccer type field with goals), it represents a growing trend in competitive flying. It may not be long before a game of aviation looks more like soccer than it does an air race.

For more information on competitive flying please visit the IAC

The Prologue

On Civil Aviation scene in India, I am reminded of this famous quotation  "It

was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it

was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of

incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was

the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us,

we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all

going direct the other way"   from Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

English novelist (1812 - 1870)

This is a classic scenario of history repeating itself. The blood bath that we

are witnessing now in India happend earlier in the United States of America

between 1978-1986 when the Airline Industry was deregulated there. An

article from the TIME MAGAZINE sums this up very well.

Alfred E. Khan, who is widely viewed as the father of Airline Deregulation

said in an interview that "Instability is the price we pay for competition". In

his seminal book on the Deregulation in the Telecommunication and

Aviation Industries in the U.S.  "Lessons from Deregulation -

Telecommunications and Airlines after the Crunch" Kahn chronicles the

history of Airline Deregulation in the U.S., its inception and aftermath

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