Australian Aviation

A CPL doesn’t come cheaply The cost of flight training has never been cheap. From the days of the Wright Brothers up to today learning to fly has always been expensive so that most student pilots have to sacrifice something to get enough money together to afford flying lessons. Today a budding pilot needs to

New fatigue regs fly in the face of CASA being a firm, fair and consistent regulator CASA has published an excellent regulatory development philosophy, Directive 01/2015 and the recent sector risk profile workshops followed this philosophy well. However, the proposed Civil Aviation Order (CAO) 48. 1 on Fatigue Risk Management (FRM) is totally inconsistent with

TUS Marines land on Australian LHD Four United States Marine Corps (USMC) helicopter types have conducted their first landings onboard an Australian LHD as part of an aviation integration program to clear its rotary-wing assets for operations from the Royal Australian Navy’s new amphibious assault ships. The integration program involved HMAS Canberra while it was

Aviation arrivals and departures across the region While your columnist is on leave in the US, this issue of Traffic details our annual summary of aircraft deliveries and disposals in our region for the six-month halves of the previous financial year. Jet airliner deliveries July-December 2015 For the six months to December 2015 a total

Adelaide-based Aerotech Australasia is a growing family affair Adelaide-based aviation company Aerotech Australasia, with its operations firmly established in bushfire fighting and agricultural work, is looking to tourism as a new business arm. This follows last year’s takeover of another South Australian aviation firm, Australian Helicopters Charter, which delivered a fleet of four rotary-wing aircraft

LATAM spreads its wings over the whole of South America The 2012 takeover of Brazilian national carrier TAM by LAN, the Chilean airline with subsidiaries in Peru, Argentina, Columbia and Ecuador, was one of the most significant events in the Latin American market in decades, affecting not only travellers and airlines in that region but