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Instrument failure: the test of trust
Uncertain instrument indications are a deceptive threat, but differing pilot response in 2 incidents of pitot blockage led to drastically different outcomes
From the first...
Theory and practice: getting the glide right
Gliding a powered aircraft is a rare and high-stakes exercise. If you have to get down safely without engine power, knowledge and experience will...
Pitot covers left on made for tense BUSS ride
The pilots of an airliner that took off from Brisbane Airport were confronted by a complete lack of airspeed information after covers were left...
Trained attackers
Coordinating firefighting aircraft is a complex juggling act of safety-critical decisions, played out in heat and smoke
Pick your analogy: a bushfire fighting air attack...
Heavy metal and the light brigade
The best in general aviation and airline flying have important operational lessons for each other.
General aviation (GA) and airline transport represent opposite ends of...
AME Scholarship winner: Deborah Dewar
Working hard and letting your work speak for itself is the advice from AME Scholarship recipient Deborah Dewar.
Deborah, a B2 licensed engineer at Premiair...
Unload your brain, and learn
Be prepared has been a Scout slogan for more than a century but it’s advice that rookie pilots can sometimes overlook.
Veteran Rex training and...
Above all, beware
Your choice: cultivate this so-called ‘soft’ skill or expose yourself to hard consequences
Researching this article, I came across the website FairyGodBoss which declared: ‘Forget...
The lessons of history: how resilience distilled from experience saved QF32
Pilot development
An unlikely connection between Apollo 13 and a Qantas A380 crippled by a catastrophic engine failure underscores the value of learning from the...
No place for a hero
‘To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’
– Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest,
by Oscar...
