Australian Aviation

The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) would like to remind people that the application closing date for the 2014 pilot and engineering scholarships is July 31. 2014 scholarships available through the RAAA include the Ansett Aviation Training Pilot Scholarship; the Hawker Pacific/Australian Avionics Aircraft Maintenance (Avionics) This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation

The Victorian State Government has announced a $776,000 upgrade of Kerang Aerodrome near Swan Hill in the north-west of the state. A large proportion of the funding will come from the government’s $20 million Regional Aviation Fund, and the upgrades will comprise a resealing and re-sheeting of runway, upgrade of fuel storage, widening and levelling

Cobham Aviation Services finds strength through diversity The introduction into service for five more Boeing 717s for regional airline QantasLink has provided further growth for the Adelaide-based operations of Cobham Aviation Services (CAS). It also provided an interesting challenge, to design a new layout to accommodate business class aboard the relatively narrow twin-jets. This content

As Vincent Aviation suspends its Australian services, for one town it’s déjà vu all over again A crossroads town of 7,300 in northwestern New South Wales, Narrabri is known (admittedly, not very widely) for its olives, its wine, and the excellent pasta made from its locally-grown durum wheat. It sits in close proximity to two

The Aviation Safety Regulatory Review It is my genuine hope that the Australian aviation community will be able to look back on June 2014 when the Aviation Safety Regulation Review (ASRR) was reported to the Parliament and see it as a milestone that marked the beginning of a turnaround for the industry. The review was

Vindicating critics, review paints CASA as out of step, out of touch; recommends broad changes For years, industry critics of Australia’s air safety regulator have pointed to hard-line statements by CASA director John McCormick during the opening months of his tenure in 2009. As McCormick vowed to make CASA an enforcementoriented regulator with “a capital