Tulla John, PM sent, Donder!!!!

Hope to catch you next week, D.

Terry was the AFAP negotiator and I ended up as the General Aviation Association's negotiator representing the Industry when it was decided to integrate 2 awards together with 4 different payscales into one award with one payscale incorporating all pilots work values relative to each other. As a pilot I had the advantage of the practical side and the negotiations included on site visits together with the Arbitration Commissioner which I flew them on the interstate visits. The negotiations went well and in reality when we argued our cases before the commission the awards was basically a consent award. Terry was true gentleman and when I last spoke to him about 3 months ago I reminded him that the awards are still basically as we had negotiated he replied "We did good work there" You certainly did Terry!
Rest in Peace

Funeral Arrangements
 

Terry O’Connell

The funeral details are:

1000 hours,Monday 15 October 2012
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
116 Cotham Road
Kew

No Flowers by request. Donations may be made to Eastern Palliative Care.

A very nice man who had to deftly help manoeuver policy and IR strategies around people with often inflexible attitudes and massive egos.
That takes great diplomacy, tact and skill.
Australian IR is still in need of gentlemen/gentlepeople like Terry O'Connell (on both sides of the fence).

.. and, if the measure of a man's standing has something to do with the numbers at his funeral, Terry was a man well regarded.

My guess is that the standing room only event attracted possibly 1300 ?

A man of dignity and compassion.

I have never seen so many at a funeral. It just goes to show what sort of a guy terry was and how well respected and liked the man was as well.

It's a shame to learn so much about a person from eulogies at a funeral. Who knew he was so involved in so much both inside and out of aviation.

The aviation turn out was fantastic but equally matched by non pilots alike.

The speech by his 18 year old son was most heart warming. He did so well to make it to the end.

RIP TOC