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Does Air Traffic Control Affect The Economy?
/Australia’s Air Traffic Management System has not kept pace with available technology. In this fascinating article, John Botwood describes some of the problems confronting the management of ATC flow at Australia’s major airports. The Effect of Air Traffic Control On Aviation Economy Most overseas countries have Air Traffic Systems in which the system handles the
Read moreAviation’s Latest Growth Industry
/On-Board Couriers – A Nineteen Eighties Growth Industry Seated beside me on the 747 is a young lady busily filling out a pile of documentation. Out of curiosity, I enquire as to precisely what her ‘hobby’ is and it is then and there that one learns first-hand of an entirely new industry – that of
Read moreQantas Strives Ahead in Engineering Services
/Not many airlines operate such a large number of ultralong-range sectors, nor are they based literally on the other side of the world. Few airlines are a full twenty-four hours away from the originating source of spares and fewer still get near the level of technical operating efficiency than our own international airline, Qantas, does.
Read moreCentrespread, CA-27 Sabre
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Read moreAirline Affairs
/Flight Engineers Strike a Body Blow for TAA: Just when TAA was headed for an excellent 1984, industrial anarchy again raised its head in our airline industry. Industrial anarchy is perhaps not too heavy a definition in view of the fact that the Flight Engineers’ strike of last December was neither sanctioned by the ACTU,
Read moreOn The Airbands
/In over ten years of monitoring the aircraft communications radio frequencies, from time to time a certain brand of humour has reared its head. This humour seems to be of a type unique to men of the air. . . the pilots, controllers, flight service officers, ramp attendants and so on. A good many situations
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