Qld: Cartoonist on drink-flying charges

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2007
Qld: Cartoonist on drink-flying charges

GOLD COAST, Qld, April 10 AAP - Popular cartoonist Larry Pickering has appeared in
a Gold Coast court charged with flying a helicopter after drinking alcohol.

Pickering, 64, has been charged with four offences under civil aviation regulations.

It is alleged that on April 8 last year he piloted a helicopter within eight hours
of drinking alcohol.

Pickering is also charged with low flying, operating a helicopter over water and failure
to surrender a licence.

The case was today adjourned for mention in Southport Magistrates Court on May 15.

Melbourne-born Pickering was a regular cartoonist for The Australian and Sydney Morning
Herald newspapers for well over a decade after getting a start with the Canberra Times
in 1971.

He then had a moderately successful career as a horse breeder and trainer.

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