Hmm. I hadn't considered that Raven might've pulled it, but I guess that makes sense. He was probably proud of that incredible, dramatic save, and probably told the student flying with him that day (and other students as well) about the post, only to have some of us go, "Err, excuse me but..." So he was probably pretty embarassed. That's the trouble with self-disclosure: it's a two-way street.
I have, unfortunately, sat on a number of post-accident review boards in my time. In a lot of cases, the pilot was the primary causal factor. The worst thing for me is to face a pilot who doesn't know what he did wrong, and won't acknowledge what he did wrong, and isn't sorry that he did anything wrong. In a lot of cases we have asked, "If you had it to do over again, what would you do differently?" Sadly, we are often met with a blank stare and the puzzled-sounding answer, "Nothing." Ouch.
I know a lot of people thought the thread was very informative, and I thought it was too.