Richard McCracken

Richard McCracken.

Welcome to Straight Talk, mate.

Now, we did something many, many years ago.

I think it was the Mark Boros show, but this is Straight Talk.

It's a different show.

And it's actually timely that you're in here.

I mean, you've got a couple of reasons.

We want to talk again about your book that you released many years ago.

I want to talk to you about that.

um the sorts of presentations you make around leadership and teamwork etc because i think it's really important for people to know about that stuff right at the moment especially um but also and i know you've got a new podcast called fly and we're going to talk about uh we were talking earlier but you know podcasts are tough things to do so we'll talk about they're very tough we'll talk about fly but but i i just want to talk to you about airplanes and uh or commercial airplanes

And I wouldn't mind touching on private aircraft as well, because I've got a mate who's got private aircraft, which he leases out to anyone who wants to use it.

So, and I think Australians...

travel more now than we ever have in the past.

I have got no stats to prove that.

In terms of number of aeroplanes in the sky.

Oh, really?

And I will declare up front, I am a nervous traveller.

So whether it's commercial, private, and if I had a choice, if I had to go to, say, Queensland, if I had time, I'd rather drive.

And I don't mind the drive actually, but as opposed to taking the risk for inconvenience, for convenience, I should say, which is traveling by plane.

And I'm someone who travels literally every week somewhere, every week, sometimes twice.