Drone Flier Diary — Dean West
Meet Dean West, a Darwin-bred dad-of-four and veteran, whose day job involves supporting emergency services and averting disasters with the aid of cutting-edge drone...
Confused landing led to sting in the tail
A chain of misunderstandings and miscalculations brought a student and instructor terrifyingly close to a hangar during a go-around after a tail strike.
The comfort of control
The benefit of flying in controlled airspace is you are no longer alone in the sky but have a team working to keep you...
Stay OnTrack: Flying the Adelaide region
We’ve developed another booklet in the popular Stay OnTrack series to help pilots operate in and around metropolitan areas.
That can be intimidating and nerve...
Notice a fault with your radalt?
CASA wants to hear from you
CASA is monitoring the introduction of 5G across Australia following international concern about the interaction between 5G and...
Eric Moody, master of airmanship and understatement
Captain Eric Moody, the pilot-in-command of British Airways flight 9, which encountered the previously unknown hazard of volcanic ash over Indonesia on 24 June...
Dirty plus thirty
A 12-factor classification of maintenance hazards remains as relevant as it was in 1993. Gordon Dupont’s' dirty dozen’, identifies manageable distinct safety problems, breaking a huge vague challenge into 12 smaller ones.
Back in the box: the importance of tool control for safety
Technology can assist, but not replace, human thoroughness in controlling this foreign object damage hazard
Aircraft maintenance is an unforgiving way to make a living.
As...
One wrong turn
A recreational pilot's first flight after learning the basics of navigation unravels into an embarrassment that could have been a disaster.
Earth, wind and water
The elements humble a newly qualified pilot.
I was a freshly minted CPL with the world at my feet, or so I thought.
After arriving in...
Planning for remote possibilities
The tiniest change of heading took this pilot out of his comfort zone.
As a low-hours VFR-only recreational pilot who is super safety conscious, I...
I didn’t plan on that
Sticking to a rigid schedule when circumstances have changed is the opposite of safe flight planning.
I was building hours after my PPL and was...
The still of the night
On a very dark night, not understanding an engine's operating characteristics almost led to disaster.
I am a flight instructor for a flying club located...
Aluminium overcast
A low-hours student keeps their cool despite a frightening incident that was not their fault.
Sometimes it's interesting to look at how you handle sudden...
