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you had to get through Scheyville. And it was very intense infantry training. Once you graduated from there, I had to wait a little bit to get a flying course and that's why I got sent to Puckapunyal, to train recruits. And I finished Scheyville I think on the 10th of October 1968, and I didn't get my first flying course until I think it was Easter of '69.
I went to Point Cook and was trained there by air force and army pilots in the Winjeel airplane, all aspects of flying, the theory, day flying, visual flying, night flying, instrument flying, aerobatic flying, which was a hell of a shock to my system because I wasn't a really an aviator but I got through it. And they had a failure rate there too.
Nothing like Scheyville. And then, I had a little bit of a wait in Queensland, at Amberley, before the helicopter course, and then it was full on again. I think I did 131 hours in the Winjeel and, at Amberley, 146 hours in helicopters. And that was the Bell 47, the Sioux helicopter, which for people who don't know, if you ever watched the movie called, Skippy, the old bubble helicopter, one of those.
