Dick what are your thoughts on a pilot who did not do the legally required BFR? Could you please comment on what you think should be done about pilots who do not do any flight planning or even obtain a weather forecast before they operate? Do you agree that pilots should always plan contingencies for any flight they conduct or that a single plan of action will do? When you flew around the world in a helicopter did you blindly follow what ATC told you to do or did you have a contingency plan/ In this instance ATC definitely influenced the sequence of events but this pilot should not have been flying with their haphazard attitude to flying. Especially in a relatively high performance single such as the Mooney.