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Matt Dearden

Bush pilot

Jun 11, 2026

36:32
So when you, you were co-piloting there, did that immediately spark the, "I want to fly," uh, you know, "I want to, I want to do more of that, all that bush piloting?"
36:42
So yeah, the caravan operation that Susi Air operated was very much like an airline.
36:47
It operated, as I say, with captain and a co-pilot, so two pilots, and we would fly set routes.
36:52
They would generally be, you know, from a certain airport, there would be, you know, a dozen routes or so.
36:56
So you go out somewhere and come back again, very much like aircraft do in Europe, you know.
37:00
They fly between all the cities and only this would just be within Indonesia.
37:04
Um, but Papua's different.

5 MINS LATER

42:31
... were catered for?
JBHOST
4:55
Is that kind of the short version?
4:57
Yeah.
4:57
I mean, that's the kind of short one.
4:58
I mean, I can give you a kind of expanded one.
5:01
Um, so yeah, as, as you kind of touched on there, I was in it.
5:04
That was kind of what I wanted to do through my teenage years.
5:08
Um, And this is kind of going back to the 90s now.

1 HR 30 MINS LATER

JBHOST
95:22
So you wrote the book and it's doing quite well, but you just kind of on a whim, like started to take your notes and compile it into the book?

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