He sure as hell didn't impress me or the hugely experienced bush engineer with whom I watched the Keebird disaster video.
The utter, shameful cowboyism and blatantly dangerous practices (shonky engineering practices/conditions & dangerously overloaded Caribous etc) ultimately led to the loss of an irreplaceable historic airframe through sheer, gash incompetence. That is simply inexcusable. Jury-rigged fuel tank and put-put left running? Come on - be serious! That's waaaay beyond any excuse.
He certainly did some amazing things on the various speed circuits but it all went tits -up in Greenland due to sheer cowboyism.