Which is what we are supposed to do, although I have been for a very
scary flight in a Cherokee Charger at Raglan where the dude made no
radio calls the whole trip, did no run-up, climbed with the stall
warning lit up the whole way up, on a very very rough day, did his
circuit the wrong direction, then slammed it on the runway and skidded
sideways to a stop. I think he was quite pleased with himself..

Don't worry, the same thing happens at Wigram too - in fact there's a
dude there that's gonna get his arse busted one day by CAA (someone will
complain), or... he'll take someone out. When *he* wants to fly, he
just cranks it up and rolls away (no runway req'd! - just nails it.


Everywhere you go there has to be a cowboy doesn't there!

One of our (former) club members got busted once for doing a loop in a
172.. Within sight of the airfield!!

And my favourite one was the Indian taxi driver who owned a light
aircraft of some description here a few years back... A couple of
weeks after he was seen taxiing in with two small children sitting in
the cargo area, he had some engine problems after coming back from
maintenance. Apparently it sounded like he was trying to clear a
fouled plug but when our chief looked up he was taking off.. With an
engine running rough. He dragged it's arse over the fence and it
settled into a paddock on the other side of the main road.. And he
had to pick the only field with stuff in it from dozens of clear
ones.. Wrote the plane off didn't he... And he had such a bad
reputation nobody would give him a rating on the Cherokee 140 he
bought to replace it.

And then he came to the maintenance shop I worked at and had several
thousand dollars of work done on the 140, and didn't pay the bill
until they took him to debt collection a year later...

Oh, he was the same guy who's original plane had a CSU, and when he
dropped in one day he admitted he had no idea what the blue lever did,
he just kept it pushed fully forward

He is the sort of pilot who gives the lot of us a bad name!