Marc Joel Atrero

If you’ve have observed the airline industry for long enough you won’t have been surprised how quickly sentiment on the sector’s outlook has changed in recent months and weeks. The pilots’ dispute, deregulation, the Gulf War, 9/11, SARS, the Iraq War – external shocks are nothing new to an industry more used to turbulence than

RAAF Orions on patrol Without seeking or generating much attention and publicity, the RAAF’s Lockheed AP-3C Orion maritime patrol and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) force has quietly gone about providing the ADF a critical intelligence gathering capability. Home based at RAAF Edinburgh on the northern outskirts of Adelaide, 10 and 11SQNs operate 18 upgraded

There is absolutely no doubt that the preliminary report into the extraordinary actions of the pilot in command – Captain Marwoto Komar (45) – of Garuda flight GA 200 that led to the crash of the Boeing 737-497 at Adi Sucipto Airport, Yogyakarta, on March 7 2007 killing 21 of the 140 souls aboard, including

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIALNUMBER/DATE/OWNEROROPERATOR/PREVIOUSREGISTRATIONS BJX Bell OH‑58A Kiowa 44003/011 5/10/07 Heli‑Muster, Hangar 480 Miles St BankstownAirportNSW2200 VH‑BRDN61472136203(CanadianArmedForces) 71‑20868 BPL GippslandGA‑8AirvanGA8‑07‑11710/10/07AirvanFlightServices, POBox881 Morwell Vic 3840 BQR Kavanagh G‑450 G450‑372 11/10/07 Hot Air, PO Box 5115 Cairns Qld 4870 BRD RobinsonR22BetaII42049/10/07Heliflite, POBox YQBankstownAirport2200 BSZ BrumbyLSA0001126/9/07CanberraBrumbySydicate, 86CooperRd Wamboin NSW 2620 BUV Kavanagh B‑350 B350‑371 11/10/07 Hot Air, PO Box

Remember Years Ago When Australians Appeared to Take Pride in Being an Airminded Nation Where Aircraft and Pilots Had a Special Place in Battling the Tyranny of Distance? This Was Probably Always More Myth Than Reality, but It is Really Being Brought Home These Days by Airports and Airport Owners’ Attitudes to the Aviation Industry.

Governments and Aviation Those Depending on Aerospace for a Living – or Life – Might Examine the Lowly, Fragmented Representation Civil Aviation Now Gets at All Government Levels. Only Four State Transport Departments Exist, None Purely Aviation, One Lumping Aviation in With Arts, While Federally There is No Stand-alone Transport, Let Alone Aviation, Department. This