Marc Joel Atrero

Business booms for Flight Training Adelaide The Hong Kong based Flight Training Group – part of Young Brothers Aviation – has committed itself to a global pilot training role in Australia, moving to add a Queensland residential college to its Adelaide facility as it aims to produce about 400 airline pilots a year. The plans

Power flight Keeping hold of and motivating its junior helicopter pilots, observers, and crewmen has been a difficult task for the Royal Australian Navy of late, particularly while its three operational helicopter types, the Seahawk, Seasprite, and Sea King, suffer from upgrade program set-backs, service entry problems, and just plain old age. With morale low

Fast class Lovely to behold and rewarding to fly, this sleek six-seat pressurised, turbocharged twin has real presence. Enter a circuit, and all So, leading with the left throttle and lots of right rudder, I gradually increased the volume to a high-pitched howl and concentrated on keeping the wilful brute on the centre-line. This content

We’re glad we waited for the DC-8. That was how United Airlines legendary President William (Pat) Patterson dismissed the agonising and costly nine month delay in entering the jet age when he accepted the airline’s first DC-8 in September 1959 from long time friend Donald Douglas Snr. Indeed, Pat was all smiles when he was

Keeping them motivated and flying Keeping hold of and motivating its junior helicopter pilots, observers, and crewmen has been a difficult task for the Royal Australian Navy of late, particularly while its three operational helicopter types, the Seahawk, Seasprite, and Sea King, suffer from upgrade program set-backs, service entry problems, and just plain old age.

Managing fatigue Nightly, our nation’s skies are crossed by a steady stream of air traffic as they attempt to join east and west before the start of another working day. These ‘red eye’ flights place a different set of demands upon their crews. A recent ATSB report has examined these issues and offered some insight