Marc Joel Atrero

Team Players In a national emergency the nation’s Defence force is almost always called into action. After all, far more Australians have died this past century through the ravages of flood, fire and tempest than have been killed on mainland soil by enemy action. The recent NSW bushfires highlighted the great value that a properly

A Better Way to Fight the Fires? January’s devastating bushfires throughout NSW, and in particular in and around Sydney, have left a lot of people contemplating the most effective means of combating future outbreaks of what must surely be this nation’s most damaging onslaught by mother nature. Despite whatever comes out in terms of a

 Additional a300s for Qantas? Qantas management is examining a proposal from Airbus Industrie that they lease additional A300B4 twinjets. Logic for the proposal stems from the fact that Qantas’s domestic services are suffering from a lack of a proper first class cabin on the airline’s Boeing 767s. AA has heard that it is not uncommon

Following an unprecedented era of expansion, the Australian Army Aviation Corps (AAVN) is currently in a stage of consolidation. The assuming of control of the battlefield helicopter from the RAAF however has not marked the end of the evolution of Army Aviation with a number of projects currently in the pipeline which should see it

A Better Way to Fight the Fires? January’s devastating bushfires throughout NSW, and in particular in and around Sydney, have left a lot of people contemplating the most effective means of combating future outbreaks of what must surely be this nation’s most damaging onslaught by mother nature. Despite whatever comes out in terms of a

Caa Legislates to Make Electronic Locator Transmitters Mandatory  The Civil Aviation Authority has moved to make Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) mandatory on almost all Australian registered aircraft from July 1. Under new regulations soon to be introduced, all Austral- ian registered aircraft (except for gliders, trikes, ultralights, balloons, airships, training aircraft which only fly within