This month’s Pilot Error is a true story, written from the author’s own fund of flying experience. Though not so much a “close shave” as previous fiction-based-on-fact in this series, it underlines the sort of errors to which even experienced pilots can be subject when under pressure. It also provides a fascinating glimpse of bush

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Australian GA Growth Through the Seventies: Figures released by DOT reveal that from 1969/70 through to 1978/79 there have been an increase in GA hours flown from 1. 1m to 1. 6m hours. This represents an increase of 55 per cent and was achieved despite a period of low activity in the early part of

Is It Cheaper by Car or by Plane? Boeing have released an interesting study which highlights the cost advantages of flying, particularly when the reason for a trip Is business The linchpin of the study is based on a 200-mile trip, roughly equivalent to a Sydney/Canberra sector Based on prevailing 1979 US prices, the study