Marc Joel Atrero

Recent media reports on the usefulness or otherwise of various frontline ADF platforms emphasises the need for Defence to not just invest in future wars, but also demonstrates its inability to fight current wars because of decisions to fit platforms ‘for, not with’ various important systems such as ESM/EWSP, medevac kits, datalinks and other modern

10 Years Ago The prototype Embraer R-99A (EMB-145SA) airborne early warning and control aircraft, PP-XSA, had its first flight from San Jose dos Campos on May 22. The Brazilian Air Force and Greek Air Force have placed orders for five and four examples respectively of this variant of the RJ-145 regional jet. On May 28

VB charts a course to navigate turbulent times In normal times most traditional airlines are happy to launch one or two new routes a year but these are far from normal times and Virgin Blue is hardly a normal airline. The airline that is one Australia’s great aviation success stories has grown into a major

Said Bryan Rees, Manager Aviation Training & Safety of the State Aircraft Unit Victoria (SAUV), a joint unit combining the state’s Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA) to provide aviation resources for aerial fire fighting, fire fighting standards, procedures and training in Victoria. The State Air Desk is the

Eurocopter’s EC120 Colibri So you’re a helicopter pilot. You have a PPL(H) and you’ve been flying for quite a while. Having probably learned initially on an R22, or maybe one of the Schweizer 300 series, you then converted on to the R44 so that you had more space for friends and family, and perhaps you’ve

Qantas’s Centre of Service Excellence Although the global economic crisis is hitting its premium traffic, Qantas has reaffirmed its commitment to high levels of customer service with the opening of its new Centre of Service Excellence. Based at a former engineering training centre in Alexandria, the new centre underwent a major $10 million refit last