Shaft, nope. To be honest I'm at a loss as to whom you're referring to with the term 'Buddha'.
All I say is that I recall something to do with amending the AIPA rules years ago. It's about the same time that it went from being 'Australian International Pilots' Association' to the 'Australian
and International Pilots' Association'
(I'll await for the Mr Apostrophe crowd to tell me whether I got that one right or not!
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