Seagulls do it better, John
Flying over the wilds of Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands—a breathtaking journey for dreamers of flying like birds and light aircraft aviators—a story of a pilot's impassioned love of flying.
By John F Pugh
Memories and passion for flying
This is a romantic passionate telling of what it is like to fly solo in light aircraft into and over reaches of Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands, rarely seen in the kinds of natural beauty that the lights of deep southern skies bestow upon them.
John extends his passion to both dreamers and students of flying with narratives to motivate them, and encourages them with hope and excitement.
Without effort he gives us a history of private and commercial flying studded with real life characters and sometimes hilarious reflections.
John
John's years of flying began in 1969 until he retired in 2006.
Seagulls do it better, John is his first book to be followed by its sequel.
John has a sensitive, generous and compassionate nature so that the characters in his book are lively and unjudged. Even the most trying times he evokes are retold with circumspection but not without acuity and shrewdness.
John's sense of humour is at times jocular, waggish, droll and jesting but never facetious.
At heart, John is a poet.
