Definitely one of aviation’s “larger than life” characters. I have happy memories of his sense of humour, his insatiable appetite for French Gitanes cigarettes, and his patient tutoring of me in how to fly the Dove properly on survey tasks. Later on he entertained us in his Appartment in Sharjah (or was it Muscat?) with his wife and baby when he was flying with the local Police Air Wing. Our last meeting was 30 years or so later when he was acting in some official CAA capacity as a B747 TRE or maybe as an FOI. What a great career! Sorry to hear that he’s gone.