Marc Joel Atrero

Community consultation the key The Australian Airports Association (AAA) and Airservices once again came together to jointly host the Aviation Industry Noise Forum in Canberra on May 27. It was the fifth year for the forum which brings together representatives from across the aviation industry to discuss noise management techniques and industry best practice. This

Time for a focus on firefighting AAAA is convening the inaugural Firefighting Operators Conference in Albury on August 4 and 5. The inaugural conference is aimed at firefighting operators so that those investing in the sector can develop a strategic and constructive approach to policy and operational issues. This content is available exclusively to Australian

S-97 Raider makes first flight Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider rigid coaxial rotor prototype made its first flight from the company’s Development Flight Center at West Palm Beach, Florida on May 22, testing the new design’s airworthiness in the lowspeed flight environment. The S-97 program’s chief pilot Bill Fell and co-pilot Kevin Bredenbeck flew N971SK for almost

Qantas Group news In this issue we report the departure of a Qantas A330-200 and the sale of a 767-300ER from storage at Victorville. A330-203 VH-EBH was withdrawn from Qantas service in Singapore on May 12 after operating QF81 from Sydney. It was then ferried to Paya Lebar where end of lease maintenance was carried

“There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance” – Captain Richard de Crespigny in his book QF32 Complacency and ignorance, says Richard de Crespigny, who led the crew that saved QF32 in 2010, means that airline crash rates might increase because cockpit automation has resulted in a

Bringing the A350 into Service It’s no coincidence that Dassault’s Falcon 5X is a beautiful looking aeroplane. For an aircraft yet to enter flight test, it’s too early to say if the old maxim that ‘if it looks right if flies right’ holds true for the 5X, but there is definitely some truth in that