Can't work out why he choose to fly in those weather conditions between Northshore and Np, 40minutes from raglan to tairoa pt
but the media from the onset said he was "an experienced pilot", surely that is why the decision was made to fly in such conditions.
shudder the thought if it was someone who went through one of these sausage schools who won't let their pilots fly in vis less than 20km and cloud base below 3000ft thereby teaching them NO experience except they have a commercial licence at the end of it, therefore must be experienced, because their licence says so!!! For f##ks sake.