Marc Joel Atrero

You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Continue to pay peanuts and the monkeys lose interest and move away. That could well be a description of the current job situation with pilots around Australia, and yet some people still seem to think that if you want another pilot you just call out “next”. This content is

The words ‘pilot shortage’ are being heard more and more frequently throughout the global aviation industry, and particularly in Australia. Throughout the country, we are faced with a critical shortage of pilots, engineers, and operational staff, with services being withdrawn, individual flights being cancelled, and experience levels being lowered, but with (at least to date)

Hats Off to Nowra the Navy’s Hmas Albatross Base at Nowra Has Been Selected as the Home of the Adf’s Forthcoming Joint Helicopter School, to Be Established as Part of the Air 9000 Phase 7 Helicopter Aircrew Training System (Hats). The New $100 Million School Will Be Established by 2013 to Train Up to 60

Lockheed Altair Replica to Be Built a Full Scale Flying Replica of Charles Kingsford Smith’s Lady Southern Cross Lockheed Altair is Planned to Be Built in Queensland. It Was in the Altair That Kingsford Smith Disappeared in November 1935 as He Flew Across the Bay of Bengal During an Attempt on the England to Australia

Airline News It Has Been a Busy Period for Airline Deliveries With the Arrival of No Fewer Than Seven Aircraft: a 757-200 to Air Niugini, Two A320s to Tiger, Two Fokker 100s to Skywest, an E-170 to Virgin Blue and a Dash 8-q311 to Anz Link/air Nelson. Departures Comprised an Ansett Bae 146-300 and an

Here at Australian Aviation we don’t usually like to criticise other media organisations – we’re certainly not perfect! But the October 29 episode of the ABC’s Four Corners program, which until now was probably one of the last bastions of balanced current affairs reporting in Australia, deserves comment. And not so much for the conclusions