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Pilot David Maddern and his wife Jan, flying in the Jabiru, were killed in the mid-air collision on Friday, but the male pilot in the other aircraft was uninjured.
The document, published this month, offers guidance for vertiport builds in areas such as location, physical design, essential and optional components, and obstacle limitation surfaces, and was developed following extensive industry consultation.
The light plane crashed after hitting a large bird during spraying operations near Chinchilla on September 19, 2022, about eight feet above ground level. The ATSB has established that the birdstrike, which shattered the right windshield, likely caused the pilot to lose control.
Orbx, which was behind the massive overhaul of Australia in Flight Simulator 2020, created a detailed reconstruction of the airport’s layout as of May 2023, including photorealistic buildings, cars, streetlights, elevated roadways and interior modelling of departure lounges.
Revealed over the weekend as a standalone sequel to the 2020 release, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is slated to be available on Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows 10/11, and Steam.
NSW Deputy State Coroner Derek Lee reiterated the findings of an earlier ATSB report, but highlighted that carbon monoxide detection was not undertaken as part of the usual toxicological tests in a post mortem.
