Only ever met him the once on an F27 flight to the NSW property so I can only pass on an anecdote from a couple of much older ex-Ansett LAMEs .. appears that, in the early days, RM made a practice of turning up in the wee hours at the EN hangars to sit down with the maintainers and chew the fat .. that impressed me no end. It doesn't surprise me at all about the pay tale .. in the early days of my time at Ansett, I think that the pilot group still had a lot of that attitude .. perhaps not so after some other folk came along and sold RM's helicopter so he couldn't even come into the office to fill in his days ..