Australian Aviation

Elections may come and go – along with governments – but it is the bureaucracy that is the real stayer and which, in many ways, determines aviation policy. Anyone who has dealt with CASA in recent years knows that, despite a lot of window dressing and shuffling of deckchairs, not a great deal has changed

A Fine Mess Last Month I Wrote About Receiving a Fine Many Years Ago for Flying Through Marine Restricted Airspace Without Knowing That the Restrictions Were in Place or That There Was Actually Such a Thing. Knowing That There Were These Kinds of Airspace Restrictions Put in Place but the Aviation Industry Not Being Informed

The days of Flightwatch, as we know it today, are numbered, probably as a cost saving measure. It seemed that it was only a few years ago that pilots who were not airline or IFR traffic were told that they should use the Flightwatch discrete VHF and HF frequencies for Flight Information Service (FIS). This

In my last column I wrote on some of the principal findings of the Queensland State Coroner in relation to the Lockhart River accident, and how they related to our industry. I quoted a definition of safety culture which I believe originated with James Reason, and which is worth repeating: “The safety culture of an

10 Years ago • The FAA awarded type certification for the Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 on November 7. The four aircraft test program took place over seven months with 1550 flights involving 2000 flight test hours plus 2220 hours of ground testing. • A US$1. 2 billion contract was signed on November 27 for the acquisition

Army Retires the Iroquois the Australian Army Marked the Retirement of Its Vietnam War Vintage Bell Uh-1h Iroquois With a Lunchtime Farewell Flypast Over Brisbane’s Cbd and Suburbs on September 21. Flying in Company With a Bell 206-b1 Kiowa as a Photo Chase Platform, Three Iroquois Took Off From Victoria Barracks, Enoggera, to Mark the