September - October 2022

Australian Flying

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Equalising the Imbalance
What you are reading represents the sixth draft. Three times it was completed, edited and signed off before I deleted the whole thing and started again. Twice more I was well into the stream of thought before I threw my hands up in despair and reache
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Federal Government Pledges To Tackle Skills Shortage
THE Department of Infrastructure and Transport has detailed its plans to combat a critical shortage of aviation maintenance engineers in Australia. Speaking at the RotorTech conference in Brisbane in June, First Assistant Secretary International Avia
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Report Recommends No Changes To Mangalore Airspace
CASA’s Office of Airspace Regulation (OAR) has recommended no changes to the airspace around Mangalore Airport in a study report released in July. Instead, the report made two minor recommendations around education and updating charts. "The study fou
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Perseverance Pays For Brisbane Airshow
In mid-July, the twice-postponed Brisbane Airshow took flight … finally. The original planned date of 2020 was cancelled and re-planned to 2021 and then 2022 due to the first and second COVID outbreaks, lockdowns and government restrictions. Eventual
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CASA Calls For Class D Tower At Ballina
A review into the airspace around Ballina Byron Gateway airport in northern NSW has recommended controlled airspace (CTA) be established with special access for sport and recreational aircraft. CASA’s Office of Airspace Regulation (OAR) released a dr
Australian Flying2 min readGender Studies
Report slams Male Domination of Aviation
An interim report this week into the participation levels of women in aviation has concluded that aviation is a male-dominated industry that is not appealing to women. The Barriers to the Pipeline interim report was compiled after Women in Aviation a
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Federal Government To Set Up SAF Council
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Catherine King announced in July that Australia would soon get a council to focus on developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). King said that the council would enable
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Leading the Reformation
You both arrived at Aviation House in April last year among the promise of reforms. What have been the largest achievements in the first 12 months of your tenure? Pip Spence: I knew what the issues were and the massive amount of change that’s been go
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Jewel Of The Sapphire Coast
Know what you want in aviation and never give up, no matter how tough the challenges, until you get it. That’s what pilots, at all levels, are told. You need to ride out the waves. And waves there will be: big, small, and freak. Tracy Bolt, the new o
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The League of extraordinary Gentlewomen
The story could have been from an Indiana Jones movie script: 1950s Papua New Guinea, fuel starvation, a forced landing into rugged terrain, tribal leaders, cigarettes, rum, and a gun. Oh, and vegetables. At the 2016 Australian Women Pilots’ Associat
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Sound Advice
Headbands bent out of shape, microphones that don’t sit and stay anymore, cords cracking from overuse, deformed ear seals that carve small valleys in the side of your head, poor fit that makes them slide around, and just occasionally, falling apart b
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Let a Student in Your Life …
Jim Davis has a passion for instructing. He has been training civil and military pilots, in the air and on the ground for 50 years. His other passion is writing, which he studied at Curtin University in Perth. You can see, and buy, his two pilot text
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Choose Your Engine
One of the great joys of flying is the sense of freedom it can provide, yet it is also one of the most regulated activities on the planet. So, we are very fortunate to have the recreational flying side of things, where regulations that govern commerc
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Dad’s Da Y Deals
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The Name Game
Naming a new model of aircraft is a difficult task. Ideally, the name has to be unique. It has to be inoffensive in different languages and cultures, and it has to be marketable. It has to set an image. Many manufacturers choose a pattern or sequence
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RotorTech sets New Attendance Record
RotorTech, Australia’s rotary aviation industry conference and exhibition, once again broke attendance records, demonstrating the growth within the helicopter and UAV sectors, and the industry’s desire to work its way towards full recovery from COVID
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Products & innovation
By the shores of the cold Ørstafjord in Norway stands a craggy stone pillar, worn down from 75 years of exposure to the elements and etched with the ravages of time. On the face are carved the names of two young men: Frederick Gordon Sides and (James
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Stealth in Your Ears
Brisbane pilot supply shop Flightstore has introduced a new premuim passive noise reduction (PNR) headset that has both quality and lightness at its heart. The Stealth FAH 900 was designed to be a cut above the average entry-level headset, but still
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Costa’s Way
As a young girl in the UK, Kaitlyn Costa accompanied her father to several air shows, where watching the Spitfire displays left a lasting impression. Her father held a PPL and her grandfather had been a refueler in Zimbabwe, so perhaps there was a li
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Get On The ADS-B Rebate
It’s not enough for pilots to know where they are and where they’re going – it’s also important that they know who or what is in the sky near them. Situational awareness will become increasingly important as we move towards integrated airspace and tr
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Why is Part 149 a Thing?
I often get questions about RAAus’ Part 149 certificate. What does it mean? Or why does RAAus need to be Part 149 approved? These are fair questions because a misconception exists where some people think that RAAus doesn’t need to comply with CASA re
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Centurion In A Storm
This discussion contains extracts from the SACAA’s accident report. It is compiled in the interest of promoting aviation safety and is not to establish legal liability. Aircraft registration: ZS-MXR Date and time of accident: 7 Feb 2002 1615Z Type of
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What Can We Learn?
Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses,
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Remote Application
Aerial application has been a core contributor to the long and rich history of agricultural aviation in Australia since 1945, when the RAAF was able to use modified Bristol Beaufort aircraft to spray an outbreak of Rutherglen bugs in Northern Victori

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