Marc Joel Atrero

Developing Habit Patterns For High Performance Out of the Blue: Part 4 I sit patiently watching my dad, who is resting quietly in his bed in the nursing home. A highly respected airline captain who finished up in command of very large A380 jets, he should be enjoying the fruits of his labour in semi-retirement.

The rotary-wing weakness in our rapid response It was 1978, and I had been in the Australian Army for almost two years, joining 6th Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment at the age of 17. Exercising in the Shoalwater Bay area, the battalion was about to undertake its first helicopter night assault in Australia. At that

Head in the clouds, feet on the ground The power of preparation is a familiar theme in aviation. The hours of work undertaken on the ground can greatly improve the quality of the flight hours that are logged. While there are many aspects of preparation, the flight simulator has evolved over the decades to provide

Training more than the nuts and bolts A few years ago, a Qantas engineer was called to one of the airline’s Airbus A380s in Sydney. A defect had been discovered in an emergency slide that needed to be addressed before the aircraft could be cleared for departure. The task required the engineer to climb up

Our top trainer has global reach It is an aviation training organisation with a reach across the nation and more than half way around the world. In fewer than two decades, Aviation Australia has established itself as the pre-eminent aviation engineering training organisation in the southern hemisphere with campuses in Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne and Perth.

Airbus steals the show, but Boeing gets a boost. E ight years ago, in the summer of 2011, a very large American butterfly flapped its wings and changed the future of the largest segment of commercial aviation. That butterfly was American Airlines, announcing an order for 160 Airbus A320ceo and 160 A320neo family aircraft. This