Swapping 787s for 9240s as pilots retrain as header drivers

By Gregor Heard and Bree Swift
September 15 2020 - 12:30pm
Pilots Dean McKie (left) and Stuart Ralls with 2 Workin Oz trainer Wayne Lightbody, GIWA Careers in Grain program manager Kayla Evans and pilot Steve Barnden as the pilots are taught to drive harvesters.
Pilots Dean McKie (left) and Stuart Ralls with 2 Workin Oz trainer Wayne Lightbody, GIWA Careers in Grain program manager Kayla Evans and pilot Steve Barnden as the pilots are taught to drive harvesters.

The agriculture and aviation industries are teaming up in win-win projects where pilots are being redeployed to operate headers this harvest.

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