Step / G - laws and regulation don't stop people with a certain mindset, and isn't this a case that certain elements of practice have been normalised so that even though it's the wrong thing to be doing it gets accepted. Very sadly and in many ways it's depressing that communique out of the AAIB and the CAA to the world thus far has been a squabble over paperwork when they and interested parties could have been actively engaged in the detail of this sortie and how it came about. All of that detail was available pretty much from day 1.