took van instead of plane today
This morning I checked the TAFs and METARs at 0600.
The Wx looked really crap (fog at destination) so I decided to drive from my home in Cornwall to Gloucester instead of flying.
I have an IR and am current.
Lots of pressure on to get the plane to its annual etc... which was booked to start today.
As it happens the weather would have been OK but I had no way of being certain at my decision time.
But I drove.
It appears that the guy mentioned in the thread took a chance, not only with his own life but with the lives of others and a passenger died.
He now has to live with that (as well as being wheelchairbound).
SB