Blown Away Our story, which I believe is true, occurred during the sixties at Avalon airfield during the Mirage production era. It seems that a new Mirage was taxiing into position at the end of Avalon’s long runway for a routine predelivery test flight. Unbeknown to the pilot and certainly well out of sight was

Mr C A Pemberton from Wahroonga in Sydney wrote to me a while back, but I haven’t had space to acknowledge him in the column until now. He states that he is “intrigued by the gentleman who has operated the ATIS on 317kHz (now also heard on VHF comms 133.85) at Sydney Airport for a

Robinson Wind Restrictions Lifted The US Federal Aviation Administration has decided that wind and turbulence restrictions imposed on Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters should be lifted except when the aircraft are flown by inexperienced pilots. Investigations into the helicopters have found that both perform well in those conditions and that the majority of accidents which

Rnzaf Recruits Overseas Pilots The RNZAF is being forced to look overseas to recruit pilots, because of the growing number of its aircrew leaving the service to work with the airlines. An alarming 37% of the RNZAF’s 90 flight lieutenant-ranked pilots have asked for early release from their contracts in the last five months, indicative