Posted for "John Barrett" <2thman@olympus.net>:

Let's back track a little and try to overlook the alligators in our effort
to drain the swamp.  As I recall, the initial goal was to get permits to fly
in foreign airspace and to land at foreign airports in conjunction with a
North Atlantic crossing.  Some of the countries involved would not provide
these needed clearances without special insurance.  The cost and
availability of such insurance is problematic.  Bill has worked out a
surreptitious way of attaining this insurance to satisfy the aforementioned
governments.

Unless Bill has a newfound concern about whether he is adequately insured
for this flight, the concerns Hamid voices are irrelevant.  On the other
hand, if the Scottish ferry company gets wind of this thread and spooks, or
if the government bureaucrats smell a rat due to this traffic and throw the
wrench in the gears, then that might squash the deal.

Regards,
John Barrett
Barrett/Garrett Enterprises, Inc.
PO Box 428
Pt. Hadlock, WA 98339
www.carbinge.com