Marc Joel Atrero

Defence Aspirations Scuttled in Frugal Budget Peacetime is always a difficult time for the defence forces of any nation. A nation’s military of course is there to assure, as best as practical, the ongoing social standards and personal freedoms that exist within that nation. In peacetime however, the last thing that almost any political party

The RAAF Winds Down at Butterworth The RAAF is scaling down its presence at Butterworth Airbase in Malaysia. From its busy days in the 1970s with two fighter squadrons and their support. The RAAF will reduce to a small, tightly-knit establishment, largely to cater for regular visits by Hornet fighters and F-111C strike aircraft. This

Sacre Bleu! The French are a funny lot. Ask any Kiwi, German, Englishman or for that matter anybody who hails from somewhere other than the land of the Tricolour. The point of this little ditty is that Paris–is in France, and that my friends, is where every two years the world’s greatest air show is

Register Review associated Airlines Celebrating 50 Years of Service to Business Aviation Long regarded as being the leader in executive flying in Australia, Essendon-based Associated Airlines will celebrate fifty years of incident-free operations on October 1st. Associated have always operated aircraft types that are at the forefront of business flying and that in turn has

  Sunstate Airlines are one airline that is benefiting greatly by the open skies policy in Queensland and they are expanding their fleet to cope with the extra routes available to them. They have recently bought several aircraft within Australia as well as two Bandeirantes from Air Pacific in Fiji. The first of these is

Atc Operational Control- Is It Necessary? This article will focus on the somewhat unusual practice of Australian Air Traffic Control authorities exercising operational control over all aircraft operating in controlled airspace. As in previous issues my knowledge is confined to operating Boeing 747 aircraft in IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) operations – the procedures as applied