Marc Joel Atrero

Head in the clouds, feet on the ground The power of preparation is a familiar theme in aviation. The hours of work undertaken on the ground can greatly improve the quality of the flight hours that are logged. While there are many aspects of preparation, the flight simulator has evolved over the decades to provide

Training more than the nuts and bolts A few years ago, a Qantas engineer was called to one of the airline’s Airbus A380s in Sydney. A defect had been discovered in an emergency slide that needed to be addressed before the aircraft could be cleared for departure. The task required the engineer to climb up

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