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  • Australian Flying5 min read
    What Can We learn?
    Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses,
    Australian Flying3 min read
    On Pioneers and Mentors
    Kreisha Ballantyne muses about the importance of a mentor. Of all CASA/Australian Flying Wings Awards, the Young Achiever is always my favourite, so it was a privilege to be invited to Camden recently to present the 2023 Young Achiever award to Lachl
    Australian Flying9 min read
    A Fling With A Sling
    I’d been following the development of Slings for about 10 years and when I passed ‘Sling Island’ I saw Linda Sollis sitting in her high wing (HW) Sling 4 chatting to people. She’d flown in from Michigan the day before, where she’d had the original Ro
    Australian Flying8 min read
    The Renaissance of GippsAero
    When George Morgan was summoned to Mahindra Aerospace in Melbourne he didn’t really understand what was about to go down. He had done the journey from Latrobe Valley often enough, but this time was going to be different. Mahindra had a “simple” propo
    Australian Flying3 min read
    Sky’s the Limit? Not Yet for Women in Aviation
    I recently had the pleasure of attending the Safeskies 2024 conference, an event spearheaded by a keynote speech from the formidable Former Major General Jeannie M. Leavitt, Chief of Safety at the United States Air Force and its first female fighter
    Australian Flying1 min read
    Australian Flying
    Editor: Kreisha Ballantyne [email protected] Editor-at-Large: Steve Hitchen Senior Contributor: Paul Southwick National Sales Manager: Andrew Murphy, 17-21 Bellevue Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010. Tel: (02) 9213 8272, [email protected]
    Australian Flying3 min read
    Six Of The Best: The GAAN Strategy
    General aviation has been through years of neglect from the regulators, successive governments, and–it must be said–the industry itself. We've long known of the challenges, but ineffective advocacy butted up against unwilling bureaucracy to ensure st
    Australian Flying3 min read
    Flying Into The Future
    Here at CASA, we’ve been working on a domestic and international level to make sure we’re prepared for the changes that are already starting to sweep through the global aviation community. From sustainable aviation fuel to electric vertical take-off
    Australian Flying7 min read
    Hump Day
    Boulia is in far western Queensland, Australia. Traditionally, it is the land of the Pitta Pitta people, who have lived in the region for thousands of years before European settlement. Today, it is cattle farming country, where 50,000 hectares would
    Australian Flying2 min read
    RAAA airs Fears over Bankstown Corridor
    Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) CEO Rob Walker has expressed his organisation’s concerns over the south-east VFR corridor proposed for Bankstown. The concerns were contained in an RAAA submission to CASA’s Office of Airspace Regulat
    Australian Flying4 min read
    A Positive Plan
    As the CEO of the RAAA, Rob Walker is an advocate for voice of regional Australian businesses. He is well known across the industry for his government experience with Airservices Australia and CASA. Recently, I tested out the common sense of one of t
    Australian Flying8 min read
    Falcon 6X Undeniably French, Undeniably Impressive
    Dassault Aviation, the renowned French aerospace giant, has a strong reputation and undeniable class in designing top-tier business jets, and fighter jets, for that matter. Yet, the Falcon 6X seems to take things to a whole new level. Because, in sho
    Australian Flying2 min read
    The Art Of The Go-Around
    Aircraft Registration: ZS-PHF Date of Accident: 5 October 2004 Time of Accident: 1425Z Type of Aircraft: PIPER 32-300 Type of Operation: Private Pilot-in-command License Type: Private Age: 57 License Valid: Yes PIC Total Flying Hours: 808 Hours on Ty
    Australian Flying11 min read
    Fit To Be Certified
    I couldn’t say I was comfortable with this. Here I was sitting in the left seat, the safety of the journey completely my responsibility, and rain was splattering the windscreen with increasing force. Visibility was getting close to zero. My only comf
    Australian Flying9 min read
    A Fine Balance
    Jim Davis has a passion for instructing. He has been training civil and military pilots, in the air and on the ground for 50 years. His other passion is writing, which he studied at Curtin University in Perth. You can see, and buy, his two pilot text
    Australian Flying8 min read
    The Price of Dreams
    Whether you’re a bloke in your 30s considering a career change, or a young woman fresh out of high school with stars in your eyes, that dream of commanding a Boeing 787 or designing cutting-edge aerospace technology comes with a sobering price tag. L
    Australian Flying1 min read
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    Australian Flying9 min read
    A Century In The Sky
    Both organisations, as active members of the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia, are unique but share common features, beside the royal status. They have facilities and an ambiance that make them the aviation place to be, operate flight scho
    Australian Flying4 min read
    STFU In The CTAF
    This short article is based around pilot (and instructor) radio use in airspace that has a CTAF. TL; DR? You’re using a scarce resource, think before you speak. This doesn’t mean “don’t speak”, it means “think first”. There’s a lot of garbage on CTAF
    Australian Flying2 min read
    AMSL Aero flies Vertiia Untethered
    Bankstown-based AMSL Aero announced this week that they had flown their Vertiia eVTOL prototype untethered for the first time. Vertiia is a tilt-wing hybrid hydrogen-electric eVTOL powered by eight electric motors that will generate zero carbon emiss
    Australian Flying1 min read
    Wings Award Young Acheiver of the Year Presentation
    On Sunday November 24th, the CASA Wings Award for Young Achiever 2023 was presented to Lachlan Hyde at Camden Airport. Air Chief Marshal (retired) Mark Binskin presented the award to Aero Club of NSW President Lachlan Hyde, who has recently embarked
    Australian Flying1 min read
    Mildura Airshow Returns
    Time passes rapidly, and it has been twenty years since an Airshow has been held at Mildura Airport, Victoria. After much planning and organisation, on the 8th of September 2024, the Mildura Aishow came into fruition. The show was opened patrioticall
    Australian Flying4 min read
    Mounties Group Announces A $10m Commitment To CareFlight
    The $10 million commitment from the profit-for-purpose organisation was made possible thanks to Mounties Group’s 250,000+ members, bringing the organisation’s commitment to a total of $18.7 million. At the centre of the five-year sponsorship extensi
    Australian Flying1 min read
    Connie, A Labour Of Love
    In 1990, while some members of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) were in Tucson, Arizona collecting Neptune spares, they stumbled upon a derelict Lockheed Super Constellation. What started as a fleeting, almost whimsical idea soon le
    Australian Flying2 min read
    Products & innovation
    MyGoFlight are excited to unveil the Flight Bag PLC Elevate, the newest addition to the successful PLC Series collection. Crafted from rugged ballistic nylon and featuring EVA foam on the front pocket to resist wear and tear, this one headset bag is
    Australian Flying2 min read
    Consultation Open: Access To Controlled Airspace And Aerodromes For Sport And Recreational Pilots
    CASA is seeking feedback on their proposal to allow approved self-administering aviation organisations (ASAOs) to authorise their pilots to operate in controlled airspace and at controlled aerodromes. The proposed policy would allow authorised sport
    Australian Flying8 min read
    Charting the Back Side
    The term “region of reverse command” sounds something akin to the Twilight Zone or even Superman’s Bizarro World, but in reality it is a phenomenon that describes a specific state of flight. Not well understood, it is often known by its alter-ego ter
    Australian Flying4 min read
    Perceptions Clouding Reality
    There’s a conundrum alive in Australian aviation that if left unanswered threatens to eat away at our future. We’ve heard for years there is a critical shortage of skilled aviation people – pilots, engineers, air traffic controllers and others. Proje
    Australian Flying1 min read
    Father and Son Rule
    An unheard of aviation event occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, 4th September in the skies above West Sale Airport. Ryan Vardy (aged 47) and his eldest son Arki (aged 18), both of Maffra, achieved their first solo flights in a general aviation a
    Australian Flying2 min read
    LAME Numbers Boosted In 2023-24
    A welcome increase in the number of licensed aircraft maintenance engineers (LAMEs) entering the workforce in 2023-24 saw CASA issue 292 licences. That was 150% higher than the 117 licences issued in 2021-22 and 128% higher than the 128 issued in 202

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