When Harvie Beetham decided to buy a farm, he told the agent to find him one “at least 50km from town” so that he could expense his flying. As a farmer, his small plane was the equivalent of the family car, even to bring his newborn children home.
Harvie shares some tales of his flying years to date, a cautionary tale about badly behaved passengers, and how he ended up in the Whitehouse with the President of the USA, and a whole lot more.
Click here to watch Harvie’s interview
This Pilots’ Talk episode is part of series of candid interviews with AOPA NZ members. Pilots, engineers, aviation experts and others who are passionate about General Aviation, have great experience, and have a yarn or two to share. To see all Pilots’ Talk videos published to date, including short clips, click this link. You can also head over to our YouTube channel. If you have suggestions for future interviews, please email comms@aopa.nz with the member’s details and your thoughts on why they’d make a great interviewee for this series. Interviews were conducted, produced and edited by Mark Sinclair of yBC.