Jack was definitely an interesting guy... Like Mike experienced, he's probably filled most of the planes I instructed in. A few years ago when I was learning to fly, he yelled at me for turning the master on while he was fueling, :laff:. Of course he was right, and it was a good lesson for me as a student.
When he was outside of work, he was actually pretty different. He opened up and was just much more talkative. He was at a Christmas party for one of the flight schools a couple of years ago, and was having a good time with everybody!
Unfortunately it's been a sad couple of years at Lantana for whatever reason. My heart just sank when I heard about this, and I was practically trembling as I started dialing numbers of my many friends that still fly out of LNA. It's such a small, tight knit community that you're pretty much guaranteed to know anybody involved in an incident there.
Blue skies and tailwinds, Jack.