Kharon,
Regardless of what one might be willing to discuss with the blokes in Formosa before getting arrested for crashing an aircraft, a willingness to break the law in the certain knowledge that in doing so creates a REAL risk to the life of another almost defines "reckless indifference".
It falls way short of any sane pilot's definition of "professional" and personally I doubt it falls within the scope of "competent". I would be surprised if EKG would appreciate being cited in the defence of BH's actions.
Never mind the fact that Band of Brothers was set in the 1950s and Fate was written about the 1930s and 1940s, a diffreent era altogether.
We're a very different society and, short of another great war + depression, will remain so.