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

End of the Two Dme System In December this year, the CAA will switch off all its domestic Distance Measuring System beacons, leaving only the 1000MHz system in operation. But will the hole left in the instrument panel also leave a hole in pilots ability to safely navigate? The CAA’s DME Transition Project will see

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

Jets Now Flying Since warbirds began flying here in Australia under ANR108A and its later title CAR 134 the focus for a long time was on prop driven aircraft. Of these aircraft the high performance fighters took most of the limelight followed by the lesser performance types and the trainers. By the mid 1980s there