Well, there's a resounding ring of truth to the style of that email. Either it's a very well put together hoax, or it's (very) well informed.
Regardless, it reinforces my impression that this pilot is a liability to himself and others, is definitely not fit to hold a licence, and in the hands of a trick cyclist with an agenda, could find himself sectioned.
How many of us would travel by train in pyjamas and a hi-viz vest?
Most dangerously of all, though, he appears completely in denial, and dangerously out of touch with the real world. Again, how would our in-built reasonableness checks view quoting a Biggles book in defence of our actions?
Maybe that cyclist is not so far off the mark?