The Disappearing Airports As the year rolls to a close it sometimes brings to mind what the future might well hold for some aspects of aviation in Australia. In particular I have a bad feeling about some crucial aspects of General Aviation, a component of our aeronautical environment that seems to perennially be the subject

Register Review Forty five aircraft make up the new allocation section this month including two classic designs from the de Havilland Aircraft Company, the Tiger Moth and Chipmunk. The latest de Havilland Canada Chipmunk to join the Australian register is BSR and comes from the Royal Navy via Sotheby’s auctions. That auction, on November 28

Thankfully, this feature has won wide acceptance from commercial and military pilots, air traffic controllers, ground engineers, tug drivers, airport security personnel, in fact, from a wide range of people involved in commercial GA and military aviation. Rick Hodge is an F28 Captain with Ansett. He now lives in Mount Claremont, WA. Before joining the

Tcas Recommended Our Airspace Management column, “Who is in Control?” (AA April 95) discussed the use of Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS). In that article, we reported that the then CAA had no plans to make the carriage of TCAS mandatory. That looks likely to change following interim recommendations of a Bureau of