My point is, Ibbotson wasn’t flying to Nantes and back because he simply wanted to do the flight. He only went because he was to be paid.
That’s quite right, but my earlier posts weren’t about his motivations, but about whether the fact that he was being paid for an illegal flight IN AND OF ITSELF made that flight more dangerous than if he - the same pilot in the same aircraft - was not being paid for that specific flight.