just as I expected good comments. Appears the lucky fellow does read here and made the right connections, got his per mail
yea, sometimes it is better to have people one thinks one knows out for a test drive so to speak, to prevent ugly surprises later.
But regarding the original topic, it is sometimes perverse to see what rep our kind of aviation has achieved over the years.... I had my own sense of responsibility questioned repeatedly by folks who later turned out to do things I do consider a sight more dangerous then my flying... It is a bit absurd to have the dangers of private aviation pointed out to me by people like motorbike addicts (that one drove a Harley which regularly wakes the whole quarter up when she's out for early shift), a repeat Himalaya climber, several divers and least of all one gal who used to work in foreign aid projects in places like Afghanistan during the Taliban rule....
What was that line again? Nothing is so difficult to kill than a prejudice.