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IFR operations
Refer to the YSWG ILS-Y 23 approach chart.
1 You are currently tracking inbound on the 080°R WG VOR. Your GPS shows a distance...
The art of organisation
Kreisha Ballantyne makes no secret of the fact that she was an ill-equipped student pilot.
Having no pilots in my family, no technical or mechanical...
Queen of the sky makes graceful exit
A piece of Australian aviation history leaves our shores today, on its way to a Californian aircraft boneyard. It is the last flight of...
Missing the message
How do you find the vital pre-flight information you need when it’s buried deep in a stream of NOTAMs? This frustration, felt by pilots...
Impromptu flight ended in spin
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has published the final chapter in a sad story: the crash of a Russian Yak-9 replica warbird that...
Wireless speaker and a loud crashing sound
From the US comes the latest domestic item to join the list of dangerous foreign object debris (FOD) items. A wireless audio speaker, used...
Cups running over creates hazard
Tea and coffee have joined the list of aviation hazards—after official warnings and even an officially approved countermeasure.
Airbus has developed a cover for switches...
An ill wind: COVID-19 and aviation
Full-stop landing
Suddenly everything stopped. There have never been months like March and April 2020 in the history of aviation. Previous world crises such as...
Death in the afternoon
The story of Australia’s first civilian turboprop crash shows how much investigation and analysis have evolved since the 1950s
By Robert Wilson
Three o’clock is either...
Bird on the runway
Managing the ‘unmanageable’
By Margo Marchbank
You’re flying a regular public transport (RPT) aircraft on final approach to a major Australian metropolitan airport when ATC...
