Weir certainly has his fan boy's, talking up his abilities, making ridiculous threats.
Accept the fact that his actual abilities as a pilot got him where he is today.
TC nailed it.
This thread together with the report should be classroom reading for all future CRM / human factor presentations (together with the damning footage of his aerial exploits).
With luck and a following wind it has already slowed other cowboys down sufficiently to reconsider their attitude towards committing aviation. Unfortunately for the rest - we await their demise and future debate on Pprune about their propensity to defy the fundamental laws of physics and common sense.