Australian Aviation

UNSW aviation students will have the ability to become ‘QantasLink Approved’ through the course of their degree studies To a backdrop of University of New South Wales training aircraft and a QantasLink Dash 8-Q400, the two organisations announced the next step in their long-standing relationship. Selected student pilots at UNSW will have tailored training designed

Australia committed two virtual assets to exercise Coalition Virtual Flag 15 The Royal Australian Air Force’s much vaunted Plan Jericho calls for the service to strengthen its embrace of live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training, which sees the increasing concurrent use of simulators operating together in a drive underpinned by greater technological improvement in simulator

Air New Zealand closes historic Boeing 737 chapter Air New Zealand has retired its iconic Boeing 737-300 aircraft, with the final flight, NZ557 between Auckland and Christchurch, operated by ZK-NGI on September 6. It closed a chapter of domestic and trans-Tasman aviation that the airline has been marking, well aware of the historic nature of

Marand moves from from HSV to JSF From its tentative beginnings as a maker of tools for the local automotive industry, Marand Precision Engineering has, in the last 15 years, emerged as Australia’s most engaged company with the $1 trillion F-35 program. Immigrant song Marand is today headquartered in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin, not

The Internet of Things takes to the sky A turbofan detects that it requires unexpected yet routine maintenance. It sends a notification to a monitoring system, which sends the part that is required, schedules a maintenance team for access, and informs the airline’s operations system of an expected repair time. A pilot pulls up real

Executive succession is an inevitability for any company, let alone in the volatile business of running airlines. Chief executives don’t last forever. Some of them don’t last long. But for Australia’s two mainline rivals, Qantas Airways and Virgin Australia, their latest financial results have almost certainly guaranteed there will be no leadership change anytime soon