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An unnerving incident at Ballina Airport is a stern reminder of the importance of never making assumptions about airspace, or other aircraft - and of the trap posed by assumptions you don't know you have made.

Pilots should never be afraid of creating a delay if the aircraft is not fit for flight. And passengers annoyed by this might care...

By a Flight Safety Australia reader After having recently achieved my private pilot’s licence, I decided to take up an offer from a friend to...

Slow motion nightmare as the 2 balloons come together. Video courtesy ATSB. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) reported today on a collision between 2...

On the evening of 13 May 2021, a … Beechcraft Baron 95-B55 … departed Ceduna Airport, South Australia (SA), for a charter flight under the instrument flight rules (IFR) to Parafield Airport, SA, with the pilot and one passenger onboard. During the flight, the autopilot system did not function as the pilot expected.

By a Flight Safety Australia reader As a fresh PPL pilot, I was always thrilled when I got to navigate across the state all by...

With aircraft, as in life, a safe and comfortable journey often depends on a question of balance. It was a question that would prove critical for the occupants of a Beechcraft Baron 95-B55 that left Sydney's Bankstown Airport for Cooma one moonless evening in 1992.

Behind an error that killed 9 people, investigators found an insidious and potent psychological force.

Adrianne Fleming, OAM, pilot, instructor, owner and Head of Operations of Tristar Aviation, member of multiple government industry advisory panels and author of The Left Seat, has been named Australian Aviation's Female Aviation Leader of the Year 2022.

A former boss once warned me that 'an assumption is the basis of a screw-up'. While I've often repeated that maxim to others, it took 5 white-knuckle minutes to teach myself the wisdom of those words.