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Proficient approaching professional

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Specific programs for weekend and fair-weather pilots to hone their skills are money well spent. Imagine it's a clear sunny day – perfect conditions. You're...

See you, see me: ADS-B

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Automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast (ADS-B) could save your life which is why the government will pay you to fit it. What is ADS-B? ADS-B is a system...

Confused landing led to sting in the tail

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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

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The benefit of flying in controlled airspace is you are no longer alone in the sky but have a team working to keep you...

Notice a fault with your radalt?  

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CASA wants to hear from you  CASA is monitoring the introduction of 5G across Australia following international concern about the interaction between 5G and...
(L to R) Flight Engineer Barry Townley-Freeman, Captain Eric Moody and First Officer Roger Greaves. Image courtesy Eric Moody.

Eric Moody, master of airmanship and understatement

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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...

Caught in the clouds

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How thorough flight planning can avoid the trap of VFR into IMC The recent accidents of a Van’s Aircraft flying into cloud and breaking up...

Flying high: a century of excellence at the Royal Victorian Aero Club

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Few aero clubs can claim such a storied history as the Royal Victorian Aero Club (RVAC), dating back to 1914 — just a few...

The bonfire of the inadequacies

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The malfunction of a flight instrument was only one link in a chain of shortcomings that turned a cargo aircraft into a winter inferno. Boeing...

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...