Australian Aviation

Pilot training in the spotlight as government re-opens the door to foreign pilots For more than a decade, a team of aviation professionals with strong airline and training backgrounds has been attempting to establish the Australia Asia Flight Training School at Glen Innes Airport, a small airfield in the NSW Northern Tablelands. Consultant Neil Hansford

Emerging technologies threaten the West’s command of the air Air supremacy has been the essential start-point of every Western-led military campaign from the end of World War II up to today. The West’s politicians and generals have been safe in assuming that their armies and navies would be able to operate free from enemy air

A new season, and new challenges, demand the right approach As I was sitting on the start grid ahead of the third and final practice session of the first round of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, I sat and watched the UAE Air Force display team arrive

The incredible legacy of the Boeing 747 One by one, airlines around the world are farewelling the Boeing 747 from their fleets. A giant in its physical dimensions, the size of its impact upon air travel can hardly be measured. It didn’t merely take aviation to the next step in 1969 when it first took

A rusty pilot flies the Diamond DA62 As a precursor to this air test, I want to reinforce to our readers that I am a very rusty pilot. Very. Whilst aviation was my first career, it’s been a good 11 years since I’ve been at the controls of an aircraft and there’s quite a big

Perth Airport on the front foot In the late 1950s the former aviation director for the US State of Ohio, the late Norm Crabtree, uttered the famous and oft-quoted words that an “airport runway is the most important main street in any town”. For WA’s economy, which is the economic engine of Australia, even in