Bloody stupid if you ask me.
As Hyperborean said, just because you [I]can[i/] doesn't mean you should. He was committed from a few seconds into the roll with no plan 'B'. If anything had slowed the roll he'd have had nowhere else to go with the only upside being that there was little chance of him taking anyone else with him if it all went wrong. Having spent several years as a bush pilot I've seen the results of people 'experimenting' and none of them were pretty.
The man's an idiot.
Last edited by Flintstone; 8th April 2009 at 02:40.