Simulator training for airline crews Is an accepted way of life, and Australia’s international flag carrier and the two domestics are right up there with the latest. . . Qantas now has two new-generation AST (Advanced Simulator Technology) Boeing 747 simulators online at the company’s Sydney jet base; Trans-Australia Airlines operates a Thomson CSF A300

Advanced Concepts Stealth Technology The aerial battlefield of the 1990s is liable to be a very hostile environment. The USSR is currently completing the development of a whole new generation of air combat aircraft and AAMs, aircraft designed to match or exceed the performance of the teen-series fighters, equipped with long-range lookdown-shootdown radar and configured

The steering committee for the Helicopter Association of Australia was formed in Sydney recently. John Spiers spoke with several of the interim officers, including President Peter Vincent (Channel 9, Sydney), Chris Johnson (Channel 10, Sydney) Dan Tyler (Surf Life Saving Association, Sydney) and Terry Summers, chief helicopter instructor, Rex Aviation, Sydney. Dan Tyler: Most industries

AUSSAT Is the marketing name given to a planned communications satellite purely for Australian domestic usage, which, when operational, will benefit the fields of commercial broadcasting, television, telephone communications, business communications, and AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS. Aussat is a company that was set up by the Commonwealth Government in November 1981 with staff seconded from OTC Australia.