I seriously believe someone’s hacked Lookleft’s username. The ‘real’ Lookleft would not have been silly enough to suggest that Table 10 is a ‘transcript’. It’s a paraphrasing and summary by a third party. In any event...
A trap was set for the PIC by the system in which he was variously allowed, encouraged and forced to operate. The ‘tripwire’ on the fateful flight was the incomplete and erroneous weather information about YSNF that misled the PIC.
The PIC’s primary sin was that he did not have ESP.
The controversy around the classification and standards applicable to this kind of operation are merely a manifestation of the broader classification of operation dog’s breakfast that will never be cleaned up by CASA.