Marc Joel Atrero

 Eastwest’s Knuckles Rapped: Eastwest has received a caution from the CAA for failing to report a safety incident within the required 48 hours. The incident occurred in late December last year when one of the airline’s BAe 146s aborted a landing in rough weather at Hamilton Island and flew too close to a mountain. The

People Dr Allan Hawke has taken up the position of Defence’s Deputy Secretary Strategic and Intelligence, replacing Dr Paul Dibb. Brian Leggett has been appointed SITA’s Assistant General Manager Sales and Marketing for Australasia and the South Pacific. Bob Mainerd has been named Airport Mgr Sydney by Northwest Airlines. John Mant, a partner of Phillips

Essendon Out, Point Cook In?: An economic impact study conducted by Essendon City Council has concluded that Melbourne’s Essendon Airport should be shut down and redeveloped for housing, business and industry, and that the flying activity it currently supports should be transferred to what is now the RAAF base at Point Cook. The report claims

Decoys Deceived Iraqi Defences: A large number of the Allied aircraft claimed as destroyed by Iraq were in fact US Navy Tactical Air Launched Decoys (TALDs). The decoys were used by US Navy A-6, F/A-18, A-7 and S-3 aircraft during strikes against Iraqi targets. The decoys take up the same space as a 500lb (227kg)bomb

RATS allows the user to perform a complete radar analysis by directly monitoring stored or on-line radar data. A plug-in preprocessor is used to connect the PC to at variety of radar data plot and track formats. whilst filter parameters allow the user to select data for storage on disk, graphic display, hard copy plotting,

Us Bans 146 Sale: British Aerospace has had the sale of possibly more than 50 of its BAe 146 airliners to Iran blocked by the US Government. The ban reflects hostage and terrorism inspired US trade sanctions against Iran which forbids the direct supply of aviation equipment of US origin. The 146, of course, has