Tackling Chinese bureaucracy to fly a bugsmasher across the border, now THAT'S tenacity.
Rather than post sarcastic comments about an 'underwhelming' achievement by a man who has more love for aviation in his left toenail clipping than whole divisions working for HKG's 'flag carriers', why not just pass the post by if it doesn't send you into elated fits of
VB drinking/morris dancing, rather than put a man down publicly who's done more for trying to preserve Kai Tak and GA in this forsaken territory than anyone else around here carrying CAD issued documentation.
For someone who doesn't have the political pull or financial resources of a taipan company to pull this off, it's a far greater achievement than anyone sipping green tea from a primary coloured cup that they didn't even fetch themselves could possibly imagine. A little respect for fellow aviators who don't have an ACARS or umbrella company frequency at their disposal every time the paperwork needs attending to goes a long way. Or perhaps your mother gave birth to you in a glass cockpit and that's all you know.
He might not be a Lindbergh, but there's no need to be a Limbaugh about it.
To end on a good note, I say again, good on you Francis.