Marc Joel Atrero

Ga Liability Laws Reformed: General aviation has won a major victory with the signing in August of the General Aviation Revitalisation Act by Us President Bill Clinton This marks a successful conclusion toa long, hard and often bitter battle to reform the Us liability laws as they apply to Ga, laws which all but killed

New Raaf Chief: Air Vice Marshall Les Fisher AO will take over the role of RAAF Chief of Air Staff from November this year, replacing Air Marshall Barry Gration AO AFC who has held the post since October 1992. AVM Fisher was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in November 1993. He joined the

A330 Crash Report Reveals Inadequacies: The crash of a company owned Airbus A330 whilst undergoing pre certification tests at Toulouse on June 30 has raised questions about crew coordination, flight preparation and the wisdom of conducting such tests at very low altitude. The A330 crashed 45 seconds after liftoff for a flight in which the

National Jet Systems Wins Coastwatch Contract: Adelaidebased National Jet Systems (through subsidiary company Surveillance Australia)has been awarded the nine year, $26.4m fixed wing Coastwatch contract. A smaller contract worth $830,000 to provide helicopter surveillance of the Torres Strait has been won by Reef Helicopters of Cairns. Surveillance Australia takes over from incumbent contractor Skywest in

An Opportunity Lost? Technically speaking, next month the Tasman becomes a free air market theoretically linking Australia and New Zealand as one single aviation market. Technically speaking this means that it should be as easy and convenient to fly between Christchurch and Coolangatta as it presently is to fly between, say, Adelaide and Sydney. At

Register Review Almost one third of the aircraft listed in the New Allocations this issue are helicopters, including two new Robinson R22s and an R44 imported by the Robinson agents Heliflite. The R44, APM, is the fifth of its type to be registered in Australia, and at least two more are known to be in