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Old 11th Nov 2015, 22:50
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Leadsled & Sarcs - despite my respect towards your positions and skills, your posts look too much like outstanding character references for Richard Green, from close friends.

The entire narrative of Richard Greens aviation record is not quite as glowing as you would like to make it appear.

As one who has had direct experience with the upper echelon of the corporate world and circulating within wealthy circles, it's a fairly well-known phenomenon that extremely wealthy people often suffer from a degree of arrogance, are very often gung-ho - and in a very large number of cases, totally intolerant of "petty rules and regulations", that infringe upon the wealthy persons aims and wishes to do precisely as they wish - directly against those rules and regulations.

CASA's narrative - if Richard Greens crash is proven to be simply a severe case of "get-home-itis", directly into extreme weather that a prudent operator would simply avoid - will be a simple one.

They will simply say, "We tried for many years to stop this arrogant, gung-ho, and rule-busting aviation operator from killing himself, and his pax - but we eventually failed to do so.
Therefore our perception that this person needed constant and intense scrutiny of his gung-ho approach towards aviation, was correct."

Richard Green is on record as raging constantly against a rule-making authority that he obviously viewed as merely a sizeable impediment against his personal wishes, to do as he personally sought fit in the circumstances.

However, in the aviation world, one is obliged to accept that ones decisions and personal desires have to be tempered by rules and regulations set by an authority that is charged with total control of aviation safety, and which authority has direct reference to manufacturers and specialists whose skills and experience in aviation specialties are comprehensive.
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