Doc, Don't necessarily agree with your flawed decision making remark in its totallity. Consider he had another aircraft ahead going to the same destination (pressure - he's doing the job, so can I - macho element?), the guy only got paid for the hours he flew (pressure - money in the bank to pay the bills), weather forecast (while it turned out to be on the money, how often do we fly when the horoscope with numbers predicts less than desired). If all aviators are honest with themselves they will all have their own weather related story to tell, we learn from the mistakes we make, some survive some don't. The chap has to be commended for getting on the blower as soon as he realised he was in over his head, all too often the macho within us prevents admitting to errors and the head line to this thread shows why. Bad flying? Stupid? or bad luck? Who wants to carry the reputation or tag of being stupid, or be accused of bad flying. The guy has had a bad experience from which he will have learnt and be a far better pilot for it all. It would be nice in a perfect world to make a command rating part of the CPL, at least for these sort of charter operations.