I remember Brian Sharp and the rest of the NA crew,great bunch of guys,I was doing my OE in 1979 and during my 6 month stay in the UK I got a job I had a mate who worked there,who had done his OE in New Zealand the year before,I went back for the summer the following year.Ernie was an interesting boss,I remember doing a flight with him in the 441 and onroute he over flew a RAF base at low level the CO was very p..... off ,but it was a Sunday morning.
Years later I went to work in Papua New Guinea (still do) and one outfit I worked for had 2 404s and with the right drivers & engineers the GITSOs would go to TBO,but it only took one ham fisted pilot to stuff that up....Brian