Marc Joel Atrero

Australia enjoys the world’s best RPT jet safety record – and a perfect fatality free record at that – so it comes as no surprise that there has been almost universal agreement that CASA did the right thing in grounding Tiger Airways in July. Editorials around the country urged that any anger by passengers should

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AMS Beech B200C Super King Air BL-168 10/6/11 Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, PO Box 463 Broken Hill NSW 2880 N81458 BYQ GippsAero GA8-TC 320 Airvan GA8-TC 320-11-164 3/6/11 MAF International Asia Pacific, PO Box 1099 Cairns Qld 4870 CUX Bell 407 53559 31/5/11 Southern Cross Aircraft

While red ink, groundings, cutbacks and rebrandings dominate the headlines, a booming area just west of Brisbane is well worth a visit. Ramblers Skydiving centre, Queensland’s largest, at Toogoolawah, hosted the Skysisters over Easter-Anzac Day weekend, attracting female jumpers from many locations. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member

It is now more than two years since the current defence white paper was released. Titled Defending Australia in the Asia-Pacific Century, that paper seemed to indicate a shift away from supporting US-led expeditionary wars of choice (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan), towards a more independent strategy of shaping and controlling events in our own region. In

We now have the detail on the carbon tax and it is not good news for regional aviation. Apparently regional carriers are part of the 500 ‘big polluters’ and need another tax to encourage them to change their behaviour. The fact is that regional aviation contributes around 0. 2 per cent to the country’s total

Fuel. It is the stuff that powers the engine, be it a piston or turbine. Without it the pilot becomes a worry to the insurance company and yet each year aircraft run out of fuel in flight. The reasons for this are many and varied but the basic reason is simply not planning to have