"Serious question: Who seriously believes that people with serious commitments can drop everything and fly to Tamworth with less than a couple of day's notice? Seriously."
I'm thinking that with Dick and Bill there, you'd be rather unlikely to get a word in anyway, Lead Balloon.
I saw that sort of thing all those years ago, attending AOPA meetings at Temora; Moree; Narromine and finally Murray Bridge.
(But I'll never forget the fun of popping a cork on a bottle of red over the upper Hunter Valley in 2000 with Boyd Munro in his Navajo en-route Moree via Armidale.)