Where did Jim Borthwick end up? Last I heard he left Murchison to go to RFDS in Kalgoorlie, but by then I had moved on myself.
Bob was a strange one, but for the day when there were so few industrial protections for GA pilots, not such a bad employer. The day I did my CPL flight test he was waiting at the airport gate to offer me a job and the next day I was flying north under Jim Borthwick’s “guidance” in a C 182. I recall Jim pulled the mixture on me to test my forced landing skill. The whole cable came out of the panel, which got our attention. Fortunately the engine kept running.
Apologies for thread drift.