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Mountain flying: unconsidered factors
by Thomas P. Turner
Even on the flattest continent in the world, mountains exert an influence that pilots must understand.
I’ve been fortunate to fly as...
Fire over the plains
September sees the 50th anniversary of a crash which reveals much about how aviation safety has progressed since the 1960s.
Winton is a town of...
Investigators say ‘Sully’ movie gets it wrong
Crash investigators with the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are frustrated at having been cast as Hollywood villains in the film Sully, which...
Après-ski aviation
Performance-based navigation gets Australian skiers to New Zealand sooner, and in safety.
The concept of the weekend is a powerful force. It drives airliners down...
Video shows bags delaying evacuation
Passenger video from yesterday’s accident to an Emirates Boeing 777 at Dubai shows something anyone with interest and commitment to aviation safety would rather...
Part-time pilot: the future of aerial work?
The scene: a regional airport, not too many years from now. A sleek high performance turbine single lines up at the threshold; but there’s...
Grinding gear
A known and documented problem continues to cause embarrassment and expense for Cessna operators.
It was a memorable sightseeing trip, for the wrong reasons. The...
Out-n-back 2 heads to a new frontier
The dry red outskirts of Longreach, the towering chimney stacks of Mt Isa and the dugongs swimming in the aquamarine waters on Gulf of...
A winter’s tale
A maintenance incident on a Boeing 747 shows that given sufficient stress, lack of proper tools, and ambiguous documentation the problem of not knowing...
Exercising the imagination
Effective emergency response training has to reproduce the shock and awe of the real thing
You are sitting in a Fokker 100 at Townsville Airport,...
