This is ridiculous. All this slagging off of a bloke that it sounds like few, if any of you, actually know.
Contrary to what IFR says, Brendan did stay at the Tiger Club and is still there regularly. I've known him for a few years via the Tiger Club and I think he's a great bloke.
OK, so he tells a lot of "There I was.." stories - what pilot doesn't, and he's a flamboyant, larger than life character. So what? Life would be very dull without people like Brendan around. Personally, I've always found him very friendly and approachable. He doesn't suffer fools gladly - I wonder if that might have something to do with some of the comments about him on this thread.
Fair enough, he looks a prat in that lifejacket on the Flightline prog, but believe me, he suffers a lot of piss-taking over it, and the script, at the Tiger Club. On the other hand, through Flightline, he gets to fly a lot of sexy aeroplanes - and he gets paid for it!
He's been flying for donkey's years on all sorts of wierd, wonderful and exotic planes and, IMHO, he's damn good at it.
He's also bloody good value in the pub!