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The 300 Days of April

Kreisha Ballantyne is one of the most recognisable aviation writers in Australia. With experience writing for several aviation titles, Kreisha has a broad base of experience, an ability to tap into important general aviation issues and a talent for expressing in simple terms what everyone is thinking. An active pilot, she lives and loves aviation.

It almost feels like a conspiracy; that that something bigger and inexplicable is pulling out all the stops to prevent us from flying. Not just me, I hasten to add – no, I mean all of us, even the 15,000 pilots who fly for a career; the instructors who risk their lives to teach beginners who are intent on killing them; the charter pilots who fly business people to their mines – almost everyone who has had the pleasure of dealing with CLARC and MRS CASA. We were all

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