-: I got onto the Herk when I landed at Bastion,
and it was dark when I flew out,
and I was expecting to be chucked in the back
in the noise and the smell nastiest,
and I actually got to go and sit up front in the jump seat,
and they passed me a headset and the MVG so I could see
exactly what they were seeing, hear what they were hearing.
And sitting there while they go
through their preflight checks where they explained to me
what they were doing, why we're pulling up
at the angle that we're pulling up at,
what we're flying over.
I mean looking out over the red dessert,
even just with the MVGs on, it was absolutely phenomenal,
the landscape falling away beneath them.
That will be the memory that stays with me
and probably the one moment
where I really appreciated flying actually.
I think that was the moment for me
that it kinda went (snapping)
oh yeah, that's why people do it.