Marc Joel Atrero

Cessna’s Citation Sovereign demonstrator, N192CN, on the ground at Canberra Airport during its visit to Australia in February following the Singapore Airshow. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in

Boeing to take on A350 with new 777X models The verdict is in from the father of the 777-300ER — its replacement, the 777-9X is “a winner”. That’s the verdict from Emirates President Tim Clark at the handover of the airline’s 100th 777 A6-EGO and Boeing’s 1,000th to be delivered to Emirates late in March.

Useful construct or distracting label? Even though many professional pilots cannot define the term situational awareness, most can claim that they can ‘recognise it when they see it’, to misquote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous quip about pornography — or that they will recognise when it was lost, as in an accident report. However. some

Poseidon heralds new CONOPS for maritime patrol The United States Navy gave the new Boeing P-8A Poseidon its first operational outing recently at Exercise Bold Alligator, an operational fleet exercise off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. The platform will replace the stalwart though ageing P-3 Orion fleet on maritime patrol work. This content

Poor profits, jobs pain for Qantas The line between profit and loss in the airline industry is razor-edged and while a few airlines make modest profits, most lose money and the industry as a whole has never made money. Qantas’s net profit of just $42 million may be acceptable to some government-owned airlines whose primary

On course for a tricky landing ‘There I was, upside down, over the sea, not very high, when the engine stopped. Suddenly I am in an aviation anecdote come true — and not enjoying it one little bit. I have been flying for 47 years. I have amassed more than 21,600 hours, of which about