Precautionary or forced landing?
What I have not been able to establish from this thread is whether this was a precautionary landing becaue he was low on fuel or a forced landing because he was out of fuel with the engine stopped whilst trying to make it to Dundee airport. With all the comments in his interview about choosing the treees rather than the fairway (do they not have fields in Scotland?) and about choosing to land at 35 knots rather than 70 knots, I get the impression that there was an element of choice in picking the tree canopy and "pancaking" into it.
I have had a look at the CTSW website - it seems a lovely little aircraft and a shame it has ended up like that. Its cruise endurance when full of fuel is enormous - it is a bladder busting 6 to 7 hours, and much longer when flying economically. I am sure the AAIB are going to draw lots of lessons for the rest of us from this.