That's fine, as I said I was not questioning your actions. For all my stupidity, I like to think I know better than telling someone with orders of magnitude more experience than I have how to fly a plane. Much more so when I wasn't there (when did this happen, btw? chances are I wasn't even born then).
That said, cheers for the additional details on the Catalina. How I would love to fly one someday!
it is advisable to think before acting was my message
Yep, I understood that, just got sidetracked as usual.