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With an increasing tendency among Australia-based private pilots to “go twin”, there is also a very real risk of accident factors increasing … The logic of this is simply the fact that, although light aircraft – and light twins in particular – are becoming increasingly sophisticated, there is unfortunately no concrete evidence to show pilots’
Trans-Australia Airlines’ first move into wide-bodied operation, the acquisition of the A300 Airbus, is in many ways a revealing insight into the character of the airline. Firstly there is the acute recognition of a market need – the realisation that the stage has been reached where not only big lumps of capacity are needed but
Pilots are still the biggest causes of aircraft accidents in the GA field … The US National Transportation Safety Board’s latest communique to AADR proves that this is, unfortunately, the case. The Board’s latest list of light aircraft accident causes clearly points the finger at the pilot in command in most cases; and, alas, the
Though it occurred last April, the full story of how and why the US failed in their mission to rescue the American diplomatic staff held hostage in Iran has yet to be told in detail. For instance, why were only eight helicopters assigned to the mission? Why did several helicopters get lost en route? How
TAIL-DRAGGER TRIM The pilot of the Super Cub approaching an American airfield had every right to feel proud of his little tail dragger … It was new and he’d flown it from Piper’s Lock Haven factory without a snag en route to its new owners. He was almost home, approaching the circuit of his destination
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