Marc Joel Atrero

The sounds of silence Did you hear centre calling you? How many times have instructors asked that of a flight student? And all because there was excess chatter in the cockpit. Sometimes the sounds of silence, otherwise known as the sterile cockpit, can be a good thing. People like to converse and none more so

Qantas Group News In this issue we report the delivery of an A320-200 to Jetstar Asia, an A320-200 to Jetstar Pacific and a Dash 8-400NG to QantasLink, while departing was a 767-300ER of Qantas, two 737-400s of Jetstar Pacific and an A320-200 of Jetstar Asia. Qantas withdrew 767-336ER VH-ZXB from service on December 1 after

Air New Zealand subsidiary Mount Cook Airline re-introduces scheduled services to its birthplace Turangiwaiwai in Maori means one’s spiritual home. For the Mount Cook Airline Group that spiritual home is Mt Cook airfield nestled in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand. The Mount Cook Company began operations in the early 1900s.

Aerial support to the flood crisis In mid-January a heat low formed over the Top End, the result of the monsoon running very late causing very high land temperatures. It drifted out over the Gulf of Carpentaria where water temperatures were optimum to form a cyclone and on January 21 became cyclone Oswald, crossing Cape

The success of Melbourne’s airports While generations of politicians vacillate over a second airport for Sydney, Melbourne is blessed with choice for airports. And it has been for roughly the same time Sydney has remained in indecision. Foresight in Victoria’s aviation landscape is plentiful, both at government level and within the leaderships of Melbourne Airport

A pilot’s perspective on the long-haul flight between Australia and Dallas/Fort Worth It’s just a number on a flight plan, but it’s a big one. 7554. That’s how many nautical miles it is from Sydney to Dallas Fort Worth in Texas and for the metrically-minded, that’s a touch less than 14,000 kilometres. With a nudge