Amazingly we seem to be going round the bouys again, hopefully for the very last time. May I remind everyone that Wratten's view, consistantly supported on this thread by John Purdey, was that gross negligence occurred at waypoint change. The only certain thing you can say from the witness evidence is that the crew would never have seen the ground where the land based witnesses were actually standing. The yachtsman's evidence suggests that they were probably in VMC when the Chinook passed him.
Anything else is pure speculation. No-one, including JP, has ever been able to say what the crew could or could not see from the cockpit at waypoint change. Neither can anyone say with any degree of certainty that they were going too fast at that time. These are the two pillars of Wratten's judgement - they were too fast under the conditions at waypoint change. Yet, in the nine years this thread and its predecessor have been running, no-one can say how fast or what the conditions were as seen from that point.