Marc Joel Atrero

Airline Accidents Sheeted Home To Inadequate Pilot Training And Cockpit Management Standards A growing proportion of airline accidents are caused by pilot complacency or overconfidence – abetted by economic pressure from their management to keep planes on schedule no matter what. If this statement runs counter to most airlines’ marketing and publicity, then that is

Loitering With Intent A Preview of the Operational Version of the Optica Over a five day period earlier this year the National Police Research Unit coordinated an evaluation of the Scoutmaster surveillance aircraft. A team of Police pilots and observers from the South Australian, New South Wales and Victorian Police Air Wings subjected the aircraft

Airline News Only a few items to report in this area as the majority of recent changes are included in our Major Airline Directory. Ansett took delivery of Al A320-200 VH-HYD at Melbourne on March 20th. This leaves two aircraft outstanding in the Ansett order for eight. Both VH-NYG and VH-NYH should be delivered by

Bellanca’s Decathlon In the series so far we have covered a range of light single and twin engine aircraft of seating capacity for 4 to 6 adults, aeroplanes which are certificated in the normal or utility categories. This issue we shall look at an aeroplane which provides additional exhilaration for the light aeroplane pilot/air traveller

10 Years Ago • The Belgian Air Force is to retire all of its remaining Lockheed T-33As by the end of June. The new Alpha Jets will take over the training role and accomplish the task in 150 hours of jet flying training. Previously new pilots obtained their jet experience by flying 125 hours on

Aew&C Programme Looking Doubtful A new round of ‘hostilities’ appears to have broken out within the Department of Defence and the Air Force Office over proposals to finally give the RAAF airborne early warning and command (AEW&C) capability in the early to mid 1990s. This has created fresh doubts about whether an actual committed programme