Originally Posted by
runway30
The pilot of the Eclipse which brought Sala inbound to CWL on the Friday has been named by The Telegraph as David Hayman, CEO of Aeris Aviation. Willie McKay says that the unavailability of David Henderson and David Hayman to fly the Eclipse was the reason that Dave Ibbotson was drafted in to fly the PA46 (but he took no part in that decision of course).
...and presumably the Eclipse flight was flown entirely gratis, out the kindness of the heart, seeing as being a privately 'N' registered jet, not on an AOC, there was no legal mechanism for the hire of the aircraft?