Originally Posted by
helimutt
Do you have some vested interest in this? The pilot certainly didn’t use its potential for flying ‘on top of the weather’ as you so put it.
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No vested interest.
I started following this thread because I couldn't understand why this plane was cruising at 5000 ft in Monday's meteorological conditions and, if a problem prevented the climb out, why the pilot didn't declare an emergency and land in Jersey.
These questions still remain open, even though there is now a hypothesis that the cruising altitude choice was deliberate and dictated by licencing issues.
If the deliberate choice is confirmed, to me this is akin to reckless flying.