A character indeed and, to be perfectly frank, there will be some reading this who can be forgiven if they're thinking some less complimentary thoughts from his senior PFA days.
I hope they'll not mind if I remember a friend with a vitality and thirst for life that infected all around him. In 1977 I took my first steps in aircraft ownership with him buying G-AYGA, a Jodel D117, which we based at Liverpool and, when we got sick of rotating and replacing tyres, Barton. He kicked me off on a love of the cranked winged masterpiece that extends to this day with my 4th, a D120.
Additionally he conned me into visiting a skydivers' drop zone and I spent the next 16 years wedded to that sport as pilot and jumper.
Fondly remembered and sadly missed.
Rob Lloyd