Carried the PM, Mrs Howard and Right Hon A. Downer plus press gallery a little while back, wasn't expecting to talk to them, thought they had disembarked, so when someone unexpectedly opened the cockpit door as I was finishing off the entries in the tech log I turned around and scowled at the unwanted intruder... the Prime Minister of Australia!
Other more amiable encounters included...
Dennis Lillee in a crowded C402, reminded him he 'cut my lunch' about six years earlier at the Norwood Hotel!
Daryl Somers (nice guy)
Ernie Dingo (likewise)
Russel Crowe
Christine Anu
Monty the morning weatherman (also nice guy, good thing he doesn't know I nearly killed him and his crew, that would have made the news, eh!)