Year: 2018

Getting together Gearing up for the National Conference November will see more than 600 delegates descend on Brisbane for the 2018 AAA National Conference. The conference is always a real highlight on our annual calendar and provides a rare chance for airport representatives from across Australia to come together to discuss their achievements, challenges and

Gear for Australian aviators Pulse Oximeters The higher we fly, the less dense the air is. To that end as pilots we can easily become hypoxic so there are regulatory rules we follow (CAO 20.4) to ensure we have sufficient O2 to keep us lucid at the controls. In an unpressurised aircraft (not conducting parachute

Airports 10, 20 or even 30 years from now will look very different to the facilities we see across Australia and New Zealand today. Radically different ground transportation, seamless self-service passenger experience, virtual digital control towers and airports that serve as destinations in themselves are all on the horizon. The ongoing boom in travel demand

Qantas is instantly recognised around the world for its red flying kangaroo. However, from mid-October the airline was due to turn pink in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Fly Pink is the brainchild of QantasLink Captain Susan McHaffie. Established in 2015, FlyPink sees Qantas Group pilots adopting pink epaulettes, as well as cabin

Making the call Understanding a fuel Mayday Even before the morning coffee had been brewed, social media and website forums were abuzz about an unfolding drama at Sydney Airport. United Airlines flight 839 inbound from Los Angeles had declared a fuel Mayday and the city was on high alert. Emergency services were being scrambled from

Up-arming the ADF’s ground-based air defence capabilities Not since the Bristol Bloodhound system of the 1960s has the Australian Defence Force (ADF) possessed a land-based anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile (SAM) system with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) defence capability. The RAAF’s ramjet and rocket-powered Bloodhound entered service in 1961 and, at 8m long and weighing in at 2.5