Marc Joel Atrero

Living in a caravan, pre-dawn pre-flights, and a fast filling logbook. As a young commercial pilot in the Kimberleys life was pretty good, even when things didn’t go quite to plan. Kununurra was full of young pilots and the motto was, “Need a pilot? Shake a tree. ” Fortunately I was able to gain employment

The battle for NSW’s rescue choppers Sydney’s NRMA CareFlight and the southern region Westpac Life Saver rescue helicopter services began their own fight for survival after NSW Health’s December 8 announcement that CHC Helicopters (Australia) had been chosen as the preferred provider of helicopter rescue services for Sydney, Wollongong, and Orange. The NSW government’s controversial

…When originally delivered to Australia in 1959 the 707 was registered VH-EBA and carried the name City of Canberra, but in airline service was renamed City of Melbourne. (Andrew McLaughlin) 707 City of Canberra touches down On December 16 2006 Qantas’s very first jet aircraft, Boeing 707-138B City of Canberra, landed at Sydney after a

National Air Support’s new Coastwatch contract The world’s biggest coastwatch task just got bigger. Not in geographical size – it still covers the huge 15 million square kilometre exclusive economic zone extending 200nm (370km) from the Australian coast – but in the capabilities of the new National Air Support operation for the Australian Customs Service.

Growth for Boeing’s training provider Boeing’s Alteon training division officially opened its new Singapore Training Centre on January 18. The new facility, located just west of Changi Airport, has been operating since October last year and features seven full motion simulator bays, computer based training services, dozens of classrooms, and office space for visiting airline

One of the best kept secrets in Australia’s aviation industry is rapidly gaining an international reputation as one of the world’s leading aviation technical, maintenance and flight attendant training organisations. Based at new and refurbished facilities near Brisbane Airport’s former international terminal, Aviation Australia was established in 2001 with the support of the Queensland government,