Marc Joel Atrero

The weather may have been downbeat and the mood certainly was but enter AirAsia’s founder Tony Fernandes and the sun started to shine at the Paris Air Show in June – at least for Airbus. Fernandes message to the industry was simple; “There is business out there if you go out and find it. I

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS BYP Bell 206L‑4 LongRanger IV 52379 29/5/09 Heliflite, PO Box 121 Georges Hall NSW 2198 N1471B C‑GBUB CDG Cessna 525 CitationJet CJ1 525‑0163 14/5/09 Professional Jet Aviation, PO Box 143 Georges Hall NSW 2198 N51CD N5138F CPE Cirrus SR22‑G2 0851 26/5/09 WA Aeromedical, 6 The Lodge Mount Claremont

Museum and airfield battles. The re-elected Queensland government has still done nothing about the futures of the Queensland Air Museum, co -sited Caloundra airport or the problem Caboolture will face. The museum continues to grow and acquire exhibits and activity at the two airfields grows despite the recession. The many people involved deserve a better

Keep fit, Keep flying. That is the motto. To hold an active pilot’s licence one of the key pre-requisites is to hold a current medical certificate but to do that one has to pass the CASA aviation medical examination. Not everyone however does that first time or at all the subsequent examinations. This content is

Inaugural Col Pay Scholarship The winner of the inaugural Col Pay Scholarship is Iain Russell from the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland. Iain is currently working as a loader/mixer within the industry and is finalising his commercial pilots licence – which requires a three hour round trip to Cairns for each lesson. He has experience in

Low aircraft Vs high rise. Moves by local and state governments to push ultra high density living over open space growth are threatening some airport operations. The main spin-off is a vast number of people crammed in close to airports under flight paths – those being potential noise complainants/curfew spawners – and massive high rises