Australian Flying

A Career at the Controls

If you have a long and successful career in commercial aviation you're bound to exit it with a enough yarns to fill an entire book. Along with movie stars, sports people and self-help gurus, being a pilot is one of the few professions that lend themselves to published memoirs … even if you don't get yourself involved in a major international incident.

The reason is that pilots are in a profession of

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