FD2 - thanks for a cheery start to 2016 - Happy New Year to you.
Your ad hominem post shows exactly what they always do - that you don't really have a constructive argument but you just dislike what I have to say - rather sad really.
I think my viewpoint has been fairly consistent - I don't agree with what Mr Armstrong did - despite perhaps his best intentions - you and others just can't get past that criticism and look at what you would have thought and said if he had crashed and killed the medics and himself, still leaving the casualty on the hill.
If it had just been a single episode of clear bravery then few, even me, would have condemned him - but he has broken the rules more than once and the perceived danger for the casualty seems to have been just one more excuse to fly when he knew he shouldn't.
One of the most important lessons a professional rescuer has to learn is when to say no.
Unfortunately, most of the counter arguments have degenerated into name-calling and dragging in situations that were not relevant or pertinent to Mr Armstrong's case - just an excuse to have a go at those of us who think he did wrong - your latest excursion into what happened in Aden many years ago is a case in point and equally irrelevant.
Have a chilled New Year
