Marc Joel Atrero

In the wake of the demise of yet another General Aviation flight school, one wonders what the future holds for the private pilot in Australia. Not the commercial candidates eyeing a career amongst the flight levels, but the pleasure pilots who populate the skies on fine days below 5,000 feet. The way ahead may well

The Garmin G1000 Cockpits have come along way since the humble ’turn and bank’ indicator and alcohol-filled P8 compass of a Tiger Moth. Just as the silicon chip revolution took the computer from a giant shrine to a hand held brain, avionics that were once constrained to the flight levels are now found amongst the

The Embraer Phenom 100 This is the Embraer Phenom 100. Pretty isn’t it? Moreover, I can assure you it flies even better than it looks. Under the surface this small business jet has huge sophistication while retaining enough simplicity for effortless single pilot operation. It is both a delight to fly and a pleasure to

Flying Australia’s Antarctic Airlink A319 to the ice Eighty-one years ago a ski-equipped black Lockheed Vega took off from the sea ice on the Antarctic Peninsula on the first flight over the frozen continent. Its pilot, the then famous Australian adventurer Sir Hubert Wilkins, could never have imagined that one day a passenger jet would

Program Manager New Air Combat Capability – AVM John Harvey With Australia committing to an initial buy of 14 F-35A Joint Strike Fighters last November as a prelude to an eventual buy of up to 100 aircraft, the New Air Combat Capability (NACC) office under the leadership of AVM John Harvey is ramping up its

Air New Zealand rethinks cabin interiors For years the saying “if it happens in aviation it happens at Edwards” has not been challenged with the famous test site north-east of LA the home of countless records for speed and altitude. The quest for the highest and fastest pushed man and machine to the outer limits,