When I first met Corey Macdonald I liked him straight away, a Surfie looking dude with long blonde hair, a happy smile and wicked sense of humour.

When he said he was thinking of learning to fly I thought he wasn't the "typical" pilot type and maybe he was just day dreaming.

How wrong was I to judge!

He did lean to fly and recently added to his aviation adventures by flying a single engine TBM 850 aeroplane from Australia to Canada.

He says he is a man of few words.