Marc Joel Atrero

Airline News in This Issue We Report the Delivery of a 767-300er and a Dash 8-q402 to Air Niugini, a 757-200f to Tasman Cargo and Three Rj100s to Cobham. 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

Understanding OVERLOCR In aviation, situational awareness – SA – is one of those ‘motherhood’ constructs that everyone talks about but few can in fact define. While researchers use many definitions of the term, the three level model developed by Dr Mica Endsley is the best known – SA is “the perception of the elements in

Delivering on its promises For those who haven’t studied helicopter aerodynamics in detail, it is truly a subject of mystery and intrigue. When it all got too hard for me during my early training, I remember being taught the two most basic laws: Helicopters don’t fly; they are just so ugly, the earth repels them!

Joyce v Borghetti in aviation’s new paradigm Charles Darwin wrote that “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ” He wasn’t thinking about the airline industry, although he may have been influenced by the vagaries of safe balloon flight in the

CAE takes on China Southern WA Flying College One of Australia’s largest flying training organisations is now emerging as a key part of a worldwide training network to meet the growing demand for pilots in the Asian region. Over the past 17 years Perth based China Southern WA Flying College (CSWAFC) has been the starting

Precision navigation comes of age The pursuit of flight safety in commercial aviation is an ongoing task. Airlines and regulators alike continually seek to enhance their safety performance through all manner of rules, systems and burgeoning technology. So what if the opportunity arose to make the critical approach phase up to eight times safer for