Flew Masling's Queen Airs, including VH-CLH (Straight tail) before joining East -West in the air ambulance, which in it those days was possibly one of the best run G.A. operations in Australia. After 3 years of that and a 20db hearing loss jumped to the right seat of an F27, this produced a further 10 db hearing loss over 3 years before the pleasure of R.H.S. on the F28, now that was a fun machine with a great network, East-Coast pilots did SYD-DPO-HBA, SYD-OOL-BNE-CNS,SYD-ROK-MKY,SYD-YLA-SYD, SYD-TMW-BNE etc. nothing better than a CNS overnight, generally with cabin crew who were party animals(Debbie, Margie & Nora) followed the next day with a leisurely early afternoon departure CNS-BNE-OOL-SYD-DPO-HBA for a night in The Wrest Point Casino! Ah, flying used to be such fun.......