Originally Posted by Jaba
Get a life……
Mind my own business…..
Im not normally one to wade in on things like this, but in this case I feel those comments are indeed warranted. Someone is doing something you say you yourself
wouldnt have done, and by that implication, these pilots are "brave"? Classy.
The C in PIC means
command, he made a command decision to fly, and fly the route he did, arriving safely. Was he instrument rated? I don't know, and neither do you. Was he able to maintain VMC the whole way? I don't know and, again,
neither do you. Remember the BOM radars only detect rainfall or virga, not cloud.
If I were to do something you wouldn't have done, does that make
me brave? Of course not. It simply means I have evaluated the risks of taking that action and found them acceptable, whereas you haven't. But does the rest of the Australian pilot population now have to worry about this Monday-morning-quarterbacking on Prune every time someone does something you wouldn't have?
Just because something is
legal does not make it
safe, but by the same token, just because something
looks unsafe does not mean it
actually is, particularly when you aren't there...