You can't look me in the eye and say experience counts for nothing, regardless of how switched on an MPL holder is.
The most important thing for me is wanting to be next to someone with some war stories, someone to have a laugh with, someone to discover that we have 30 mates in common from the time in the bush. I don't want to sit in silence next to someone who counts going to a fancy dress party dressed as iceman as experience.
Reminds me of a classic simpsons moment, the way things are going, these moments will be repeated throughout Australian cockpits for years to come......
Larry Burns: Well, how do ya like that? I have been in a museum. So, what happened
with you and Ma?
Monty Burns: Oh, there was a terrible scandal. Lily's family forced her to give you up,
and bundled her off to a convent in the South Seas. I never heard from her
again. But I prattle on. Tell me everything about your life.
Larry Burns: Oh, what's to tell? I was at the orphanage till I was 18, then I got my job
at a souvenir stand.
Oh, and once I saw a blimp.