General Aviation and Military Flying Training Philosophies – Are There Fundamental Differences? Several years were to pass between my last flight in the Navy and my first flight with an aero club, but it didn’t take me too long to reach the conclusion that the only similarity between the two was that you pushed the

Hunting Takes Flight Calibration a Step Towards the Future With the CM soon to announce the winning tender for operating Australia’s airways calibration contract, a British firm has pioneered a cost effective and novel solution to what previously was an overly expensive operation.  When it comes to landing an aircraft, particularly a large passenger jet,

Rotor Brake Malfunction Determined as Cause of EH 101 Crash It has been determined that the cause of the crash of a prototype EH 101, reported in the this column in June, was the uncommanded application of the rotor brake. The intense heat generated caused the metal in the assembly to melt, which in turn

An anonymous (name supplied) contributor who lives in South Australia, and who works as a charter pilot, supplied this beautiful story. Our correspondent says some aviators are still coming to grips with the fact that some groundstations are using handheld transceivers that are capable of scanning numerous frequencies in the airband allocation. An incident that