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    Eating the Elephant

    Dec 14, 2018 3 minutes

    I’d always been fascinated by flying and had a few flights in jets but it wasn’t until the year after high school that I got in a light aircraft. I was on my way to central Queensland to work as a jackeroo and flew from Winton to Central Qld in a Cessna 206.

    After university I worked on a farm in NSW and loved watching the large Air Tractors effortlessly run up and down the

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