Marc Joel Atrero

Professional development doesn’t happen by accident – you need a career map, an enquiring mind and a very personal commitment to ongoing learning. Just because you have reached your immediate goal of attaining a licence doesn’t mean you should put away the books. And if you have thousands of hours at you are not excused

Virgin Blue’s pending Skywest operated ATR 72 fleet offers hope for regional towns. Tamworth and Armidale in NSW and Bundaberg, Gladstone and Emerald in Queensland have not had airline competition since the Ansett collapse a decade ago, and would be keenly looking to see just how Virgin Blue deploys its ATRs. This content is available

Nav basics – the mud map A mud map. What is that you may well ask? The usual definition of a mud map is an informal map …. a roughly drawn map, usually on the ground. In the flight training area a mud map (MM) can be a great asset to assist in the execution

Many operators have been working feverishly on their responses to the Productivity Commission (PC) inquiry into airport regulation. While the title is hardly riveting, this is one of the most important aviation inquiries announced by government in the past two decades. Since airports were privatised there has been a quantum shift in market power, with

Sikorsky X2 Wins Collier Trophy Sikorsky’s X2 Technology demonstrator team has won the 2010 Robert J Collier Trophy; six months after the X2 demonstrator set an unofficial rotary winged world speed record of 250kt. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article,

With the recent strikes on Libya by United Nations led NATO forces, it was interesting to note a stay of execution had been granted to the RAF’s Nimrod R1 ELINT/SIGINT force so it could participate in the venture. The UK’s coalition government has, under last year’s Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR) process, ‘chopped’ the