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Old 30th Aug 2009, 09:58
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Eastwest Loco
 
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Bloody great job to the Tech crew.

I partly grew up on the flight deck of TN aeroplanes from the age of 8 as Dad's great mate Ken "Boomer" Collins would take me jump seat on a days flying.

Brilliant, and I would have aspired to a CPL if not for astigmatism which then procluded to me. It happens, so I went elswehere in the industry.

The order and attention to rank and detail, procedures and precision have an effect on a younger person and rightly so.

A normal kid is going to see quite clearly that one has to have standards and abide by them in order to operate a complex machine.

I still remember my eyes nearly bugging out of my head when I visited Captain Jimmy James on the flight deck of TJA in flight and wondered how he and the F/O and F/E managed all those dials and still flew.

Well done again.

Keep the magic alive and maybe make a few more Aussie kids aspire to something that needs a heap of hard work and dedication.

Best all

EWL

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