John Tullamarine,
Thanks for the info. I believe Stirling is still at
Albury. I remember with great affection, the time
I shared the flying with Stirling and Cheryl, his
wife in VH-SVW PA28. We flew Bankstown /
Canberra / Albury / Moorabbin. I was to continue
my training with Sterling over a weekend in
Victoria. I stayed with Stirling's Mum and Dad,
We visited some great airfields, one restoring
1950 light aircraft. The highlight was landing the
Cherokee at Tullamarine, and being asked by
ATC if I could increase speed to to 130kts, as
I had an Air Nauru B727 behind me on finals.
Having reconfirmed Cherokee Sierra Victor
Whiskey, The Aussie Air Nauru captain replied.
"Don't worry mate, Your bloody wings will come
off, I'll slow down". I did a flapless at MEL. and
cleared the main pretty sharpish.
Stirling had taught me "Stabilized Approach
Concept'", which I found easy, It got a couple of
comments, when getting checked out in the U.K.
He also worked before BWU in Malaysia as
instructor with MAS,
Lance Shippey