"I am outraged this unnecessary risk was forced on myself and my family for no apparent reason."
He is perfectly happy flying his family to and from Lord Howe Island, an 800m odd strip in the middle of the ocean in a single engine aeroplane at 8500 ft, an altitude from which he would only have been able to glide into the water for the vast majority of his flight.....
Reading between the lines, if the article is correct, there would have to be something more to this. What sort of person would place their own life and those of his family at unnecessary risk in the first place. What is he trying to prove?
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