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Capt. Trevor Vanderstraaten flies West Source:Island The death occurred recently of Capt. Trevor Vanderstraaten, in Melbourne, Australia. He was a senior airline captain of Air Lanka and SriLankan Airlines. He was an old boy of St Joseph’s College. We were fellow trainee pilots at the Flying Training School (FTS) at the Ratmalana Airport, in the late sixties. The school was run by the Civil Aviation Department and like today, although our training was relatively expensive, there was no guarantee of an airline job. The only airline in existence was Air Ceylon. We were all from middle class families, full of passion for aviation and spent many hours, rain or shine, between training flights, seated on cane chairs, by the hangar door watching aeroplanes fly and drinking cups and cups of tea at the CAD’s (Civil Aviation Department’s) canteen behind the Fire Station. He was trained by late Capt. S B ...