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Speaking to Australian Aviation, RFACA president Lachlan Hyde said Airservices Australia’s proposed "traffic levelling" and 3-minute departure spacing at Bankstown would cut capacity by 37 per cent at peak windows, representing a “fundamental threat to the viability of GA and flight training”.
The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) has excoriated Experience Co and its subsidiary Skydive Australia, which the union says has applied to the government to hire 37 cheaper overseas workers while axing its local training program. The company says it is not looking to replace local workers.
Around 70 instructors for Skydive Australia, part of Experience Co, walked off the job at eight sites around Australia over the weekend seeking better pay and conditions. It followed similar industrial action in December over stalled enterprise agreement negotiations.
AGAIR has been stripped of its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and aerial work certificate (AWC), with the ABC reporting the aviation regulator found that the company had neglected essential maintenance and created a culture of poor safety. A challenge to these decisions is expected.
Speaking to ABC’s 7:30, RAAus chair Michael Monck said that one accident does not necessarily point to wider systemic problems. It comes as the organisation faces scrutiny over training shortfalls that allegedly contributed to the deaths of 20-year-old Luke Smith and his brother and cousin.
VH-RRP, a Kubíček BB142P hot air balloon, sustained the 45cm tear while being cold-inflated prior to an early-morning flight near Beaudesert in Queensland on 18 October last year, and was patched up in the field with “specialised adhesive tape”, according to investigators.
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