The focus that an award or similar recognition is not for assessing what he is like as a pilot in routine humdrum of life, but for when facing challenges and hardship that many people or pilots would not cope well with, but where he shows his more exceptional abilities in pushing the boundaries of what a 72 year old can do 'unsupported' in a very primitive aeroplane that is even older than him and when flying long distances to the more remote and dangerous places of the world.