I used to be the competition secretary at Welton Manor golf club where the arrows "reds and blues" are members, we used to arrange charity days and competitions where the pilots and ground staff competed as normal members. In my and the clubs opinion we found all of the red arrow members to be extremely modest and professional on and off duty. A point of interest is that to become a pilot within this elite group, all applicants have had to been active in front-line combat duties and . In this case that would have been in Iraq and Afghanistan all of whom would have flown fighter aircraft. That's why they are the cream and many hundreds apply and only the top 3 go through to become new replacement pilots. Nearly forgot, to understand the accuracy that they fly to in formation its not uncommon for them to concentrate on items like a nut or bolt on the next aircraft to them, this is to keep them in formation literally a few feet away, don't forget they fly up too 600mph. Slightly slower than my wife getting out of the car park at Tesco.