Go-around:
Beg to differ but I have in front of me as I type, a fax from an instructor in support of the pilot of the said 172 who was attempting to join our Arrow group with far too few hours for comfort.
Said instructor promises to accompany the pilot on all trips in our Arrow if we let him in and, and I quote the fax dated 21.1.01 * we will be completing a trip to Inverness and Glasgow this coming week.*
Now unless there was a last minute change of plan the unknown chappie *was* an instructor: if he wasn't then what was a less than 100 hours pilot doing flying a leg like that in conditions like that.