Marc Joel Atrero

An anonymous (name supplied) contributor who lives in South Australia, and who works as a charter pilot, supplied this beautiful story. Our correspondent says some aviators are still coming to grips with the fact that some groundstations are using handheld transceivers that are capable of scanning numerous frequencies in the airband allocation. An incident that

Near Miss Blamed on Atc Air traffic control procedures at Wellington airport have been blamed for a near miss involving a Boeing 737 carrying 66 passengers and crew and a smaller aircraft. The Air New Zealand 737 and a Piper Tomahawk passed in opposite directions about 350m apart and avoided a collision only by chance.

TALES Definitely the lighter side of aviation! Panic Airways! In the early days of postwar civil aviation things were fairly relaxed and it was not unusual for crew pranks to be developed to a near art form. Our story has an unnamed airline’s DC-3ambling along between Sydney and Brisbane in the late forties. On board

Register Review Twenty six aircraft are listed in the New Allocation section this month therefore with four machines returning to the register and 23 deletions, the number of aircraft flying in Australia remains fairly steady with just over 9400 entries on the official register. The trend continues with the large majority of the new entries

Awa Takes off in China: AWA has recently been awarded a new contract to provide air navigation systems for a further 18 civil airports in China. The latest contract means that AWAnow has contracts to install air navigation equipment at a third (or 72) of China’s civil airports. On top of this recent success, AWA

Military Army Trials Scouts: Israel Air- craft Industry Scout unmanned aerial vehicles have been undergoing Army evaluation in recent times. Two of Scout UAVs have been on lease, with 20Israeli civilians attached to the Army involved with the trials. Under Project Nexon, the Scouts are being evaluated with a view to improving the Army’s battlefield