If you flew beta you would have seen him quite often.
He is also a pilot in his own right in real life with some experience in WWII aircraft.
Shuffler, FLS ... indeed. Yet it is not what I said. When he was showing up in Beta he was working. Let me re-phrase, most of the perceived issues need to be experienced by playing the game daily as a regular Joe not and not with a Hitech gamertag. The plane flipping, the eyebrow raising moves, the harassment described, guys flying thru ack numerous time unhurt, hitting a plane with 4-5 burst of 8 50s to keep seeing him flying while losing your tail to a single 20mm hit. All these are 'perceived' and can only be experienced first hand. The stall/P factor relation weirdness is a FM issue to me.
Do not read me wrong about Hitech, he is no Oleg. To me he cares deeply about his product. That Oleg guy had a huge ego regarding his FM and game but could never admit irregularities nor look into it.