Good on you SAS, stick to your guns.
Life is nothing without an element of risk and I am prepared to take on an amount of well judged risk. My risk level it seems is a bit higher than yours but that is my personal choice.
I guess in your book everything is stacked against me, our take off is a black hole take off, I fly IMC at night and over water in a single (and a twin) but at least I wont be on lying on my death bed wondering "what if", most likely my shattered body will be lying on a foggy hillside in the middle of the night or mid channel freezing to death. But hey what a ride and at least they will have my GPS to recover the data..........