He is a very accomplished pilot with many different type ratings. I've got to give him grudging admiration, erasing all that disco-induced hatred for him I used to feel.

If I remember the reports correctly, he once had an upset in a bizjet of his that required him to recover by going with the upset and in essence rolling 360 degrees back upright. This was in an approach to SAN if again IRC. I think also that this incident was a critical data point that led to the studies that eventually classed a 757 as a 'heavy'.