The Ansett DC3 feather drill was:- Throttle, feather, mixture, pitch, undercarriage hydraulics.
Most of the Patair pilots in 1969 were:-
Ken Jarrold … chief pilot.
Forgy... Bill Forgan-Smith … ops manager. Ex Qantas DH96 and DC4 pilot. He was the most ham fisted stick and rudder man most of us ever saw.
Captain Drama... John MacDermott. Ex TAA and would have been No 1 if he hadn’t been expelled by the good old ex-airforce boys in the fifties when it was discovered he like gents more than ladies.
Captain Trembles… John “Trowewe hand” Keene.
Baldy Bill… Bill Baldwin.
Rene Joggi … the last DC3 captain trained before the Ansett takeover.
Wally Scott
Charlie Long
Dave Barnett
MaxMacRae
Leigh Teasdale.
Mincon Peni
Aria Bou
Dennis Gray
Brian Soapy O’Loughlan
Peter Hauritz
Sharpie
Ian Young
Bruce Whiley.
There were others… I can’t rake them up from memory… I’m away from home on holidays.
Sixties.