Australian Aviation

Embraer has announced it has improved its FlyEmbraer web portal (www.flyembraer.com), an online dedicated tool for the after-market community that provides support and services to its executive jet customers. The company says the site has become more user friendly and easier to navigate through improvements to its look and feel and simpler design. It has

Airservices Australia (ASA) and the Indonesian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have agreed to allow air traffic controllers to track aircraft up to 150nm inside each country’s airspace using Automatic Dependant Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B). ASA CEO Greg Russell said the agreement will improve traffic situational awareness in both countries. “The new arrangement will bring

The recent escalation of fighting in Afghanistan and corresponding rise in the number of Australian and allied casualties has again raised the spectre of whether our forces are appropriately equipped for the type of war they are fighting there. Despite anonymous letters from the front line and from units about to deploy calling for heavier

The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from A380 VH-OQA involved in the QF32 engine failure near Singapore on November 4 has had key parts of the emergency overwritten because the aircraft’s outboard number 1 engine, which supplies power to the CVR, was unable to be shut down immediately after the aircraft made its emergency landing. The

Japanese carrier Skymark Airlines has signed an MoU with Airbus for four A380s, with Australia listed as a possible destination for the aircraft. “Its excellent takeoff and landing performance enables the A380 to operate on the shorter 2500m runways at Japan’s Narita and Tokyo Haneda airports carrying a full passenger payload and cargo to destinations

Boeing has opened a new P-8 aircraft production facility at Boeing Field in Seattle. The building, which is a refurbished factory, gives Boeing additional space for the installation of mission systems and to conduct tests on aircraft for current and future customers. The P-8 airframes are built next to the commercial 737 line at nearby