Your own thoughts on his book aside, there's a burning question I have that at first intrigued me and now annoys me.
On QF32 he was getting a route check, and said "either Dave or Harry (Check captain's) could end my career that day with a fail on the route check."
Then at the very end of the book, he states that he didn't pass.
Would he have failed the route check because of his actions on the flight, emergency procedures included? Or would a route check on a flight that experiences an emergency and diversion/and or return to land constitute an incomplete check or something similar, with a requirement for an additional check?
Are there items on a route check that can be revisited if not to a satisfactory standard, or is it one in all in - 'end my career' type stuff.
Thanks - Once resolved I can move onto the next trivial, inconsequential matter.