Marc Joel Atrero

Our top trainer has global reach It is an aviation training organisation with a reach across the nation and more than half way around the world. In fewer than two decades, Aviation Australia has established itself as the pre-eminent aviation engineering training organisation in the southern hemisphere with campuses in Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne and Perth.

Airbus steals the show, but Boeing gets a boost. E ight years ago, in the summer of 2011, a very large American butterfly flapped its wings and changed the future of the largest segment of commercial aviation. That butterfly was American Airlines, announcing an order for 160 Airbus A320ceo and 160 A320neo family aircraft. This

Fine-tuning produces a great race finish If you haven’t yet heard the news, the Red Bull Air Race will be wound up at the end of this season. In fact, the season was shortened to just four races in the process of the announcement. A real shame for what I consider to be the best

Ready to fly? Then take a tablet It is more than nine years since Apple released its first iPad. Now an astonishing 360 million iPads have sold (as of June 2019)! Today, the top iPads on the market are the: iPad Pro 11″ and 12.9″ iPad Air iPad iPad Mini The iPad has become an

Warning over use of type for agricultural flying Robinson R44 re-evaluated for agriculture operations in NZ The NZ media has reported on the follow-up to the Transport Accident Investigation Commission’s final report dated December 2017, concerning the failure of a main rotor blade on a Robinson R44 in Southland in January 2015. While spraying gorse

Insights from the world of aviation Qantas Group News Qantas plans to downgauge its flights between Alice Springs and Darwin from 174-seat two-class Boeing 737-800s to 100-seat all-economy Fokker 100s from October 27 2019 – a route it began flying in March. The airline said in June that the 737-800s had “proven to be bigger