Jondc9, having read a couple of your contributions to other threads, may I politely suggest that before jumping with with "authoritive" pronouncements you might like to ask a few questions, or at least ensure you understand important things like "this 1,000' business" (though you are right, it is a variation on the FAA theme). Telling us about KPIT is all very interesting, but hardly relevant to the information provided in this case, etc. etc. etc. It is also interesting that you feel that "if they had crashed, additional grief would come from the CAA." and that since they didn't crash "they will probably "get away with it". From whence do you get such nuggets?