Airservices Australia has graduated 19 new rescue and firefighters at the organisation’s Melbourne training centre. Having completed their 11-week course the graduates will join 740 existing firefighters across the service, and will be deployed to stations at Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Sydney, Rockhampton, Adelaide and Darwin. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login
Nearly 100 more air traffic movements a day could be extracted from Perth Airport’s current runway configuration by reducing arrival separation and reducing runway occupancy time, a study on the airport’s airspace issues by UK air navigation service provider NATS has found. Airservices commissioned the study on capacity at Perth Airport as mounting congestion and
Air navigation services provider Airways New Zealand has become the first ANSP in the world to receive ICAO endorsement as a designer of instrument procedures for Performance-Based Navigation (PBN). “We’ve done many different types of PBN flight procedures for varying environmental and traffic conditions, weather conditions and mixed fleet capabilities. We’re proud to have this
Airports Fiji Limited (AFL) has appointed The Ambidji Group to support the introduction of the next phase of Fiji’s air traffic management development program. AFL is leading the use of multi-sensor surveillance technology for use in terminal area control at Nadi Airport. The new system determines aircraft positions by triangulating aircraft transponder signals at multiple
CASA is studying the effects of introducing civilian operations at RAAF Base Richmond as part of an analysis of the short-term future of Sydney’s airspace. The study will look at a forecast period of five years to evaluate proposed changes including the integration of Bankstown and Camden airports into the current airspace architecture and the
Billed as the world’s largest aerospace conference, the 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) will be held next week in Brisbane. “The 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences is a fantastic opportunity for Australian researchers to feature on the international stage,” said Andrew Drysdale, president of