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Old 3rd Oct 2010, 04:58
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john_tullamarine
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At least one of our greybeard members was a line F27 pilot with DCAFU in the early 70s until he left to go fly airlines. With any luck he will take the bait and relate some yarns of navaid survey trips and the like.

Indeed, another PPRuNer was the boss for several years a little later on. A chap of many tales who had done my initial twin training some years earlier.

Just like airlines without the hosties ... somehow the techs just didn't cut the mustard in the hostie stakes.


[For hei yu, looking at the link in the last post, I think the reference to Rod Torrington as a tech might be a little off the mark. Although, as I recall, he started off as a tech, Rod was, by then, a fairly senior electrical engineer - I was but a junior aero eng chap at the time and learned a great deal from Rod. I see Brian Surtees' photo on the poster - haven't seen him in years - do you know what he is up to these days ?]
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