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Developing Habit Patterns For High Performance Part 2 – Switch Off to Switch On In last month’s article I discussed the potentially debilitating impact of regular time away from family, friends and the community in which you live. In the article, our pilot, after many years of regular international flight schedules, where the fun and

Unlocking the earth’s secrets from above To the uninitiated, low-flying helicopters with protruding booms that look like jousting lances flying back and forth over the same patch of terrain would seem an odd activity. For Australia’s Griffith-based Thomson Aviation Geophysical Survey it’s all in a day’s work. It has been doing this repetitive process over

Upgrades and high praise, but what follows in the wake of the ARH After protracted development and a troubled service entry, the Australian Army’s Airbus EC 665 Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) has only recently started hitting its straps and providing its promised capability –one which has been nearly two decades in the making. Selected

CHC in the vanguard, on and offshore CHC Helicopters Australia has launched a unique joint operation with four North West Shelf petroleum companies to improve efficiency and contain costs. The Helicopter Sharing Agreement enables CHC to redeploy two helicopters, reducing its Pilbara-based fleet to five machines. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Vessel plays key role in getting trainee pilots on deck The Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Creswell is considered to be the cradle of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), graduating its first cadets in 1916. As such, a vessel sitting nearby offshore in Jervis Bay is nothing particularly unusual. However, as part of the

Helicopter industry ‘steady as she goes’ When it comes to debate over climate change, you won’t find Ray Cronin lining up with the sceptics. As boss of specialist aviation group Kestrel, he has seen first hand how the influence of climate change has grown year by year to produce what is one of the few