Seems someone has been stretching the truth just a little!

[Eric Hunt]

What a weasel.

I was in 9 Sqn at the time, never heard of him, and there WAS no "special" secret branch of the squadron.

[hand in pants]

Met him once at Tamworth. I think he was teaching theory for a school there. Seemed a slippery type.

[Tony Carmody]

On second thoughts - post removed - probably too inflammatory.

Tc

[ozloadie]

The RAAF handed over the Iroquois in late '89 - early '90.
171 Op Spt Sqn & SAA (School of Army Avn) (Slicks)in Oakey, and C Sqn (Gunships) 5 Avn Regt Townsville were the operators after the handover.

I was with 171 OSS and I'm pretty sure that the last RAAF pilot had transferred over to the Army in 94 -95, so we had no RAAF aircrew in the units except for the odd Aircrew Loadmaster (W.Off and FSgts) finishing out their RW careers. Most of them retyped to C130J's and 707's (Tankers).

RAAF ARDU in Edinburgh still had RW Aircrew on their books as they did ARA and RAN but the numbers are small (safety, test and development crews).

Op Bel Isi was the Bougainville Monitoring Force from 98 - 01.

I wonder if anyone has audited his log books for 3 years of suspect entries, including the aircraft tail numbers and endorsement currencies.

Eric is right about there being no "special detachment". 9 Sqn has a well established history and the whole unit contributed to that reputation, they were very good at what they did.

[hand in pants]

It is unfortunate that in this industry there are a few that think we are stupid. They see/here of something done and they say they have done it. They inflate their hours not realising they will still fly like a low hour pilot.

Good thing is with information freely available on the web, most lies will be obvious after 10 minutes on your computer and two phone calls.