This episode features a wide-ranging discussion of the flight engineer category and its place on the C-130 Hercules. Tony Hall also covers his operational C-130 experience, along with his transition onto Caribous and then as a Loadmaster on C-130Js. The discussion ranges into:
- RAAF B-707 operations based in Kyrgyzstan (where Tony was an Operations Officer)
- Impact of the Safety system on Flight Engineer authorisations
- The latter years of C-130H operations in the RAAF
- RAAF consideration of having a FLTENG on the C=130J
- Demise of the FLTENG mustering
- Transition to Loadmaster
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