Chimbu Chuck posted elsewhere:
Vale John Simon - Simmo. Passed away last night from a ruptured duodenal ulcer in Cairns Base Hospital.
One of life's true characters. Ex Talair and my training Captain all those years ago on the F28 at PX. A genuinely funny man and one of the finest pilots I have ever shared a cockpit with.
RIP old mate.
I would have thought taken all too early??
Great guy, hard worker, heaps of fun.
Sadly missed........