Useful construct or distracting label? Even though many professional pilots cannot define the term situational awareness, most can claim that they can ‘recognise it when they see it’, to misquote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous quip about pornography — or that they will recognise when it was lost, as in an accident report. However. some

Poseidon heralds new CONOPS for maritime patrol The United States Navy gave the new Boeing P-8A Poseidon its first operational outing recently at Exercise Bold Alligator, an operational fleet exercise off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. The platform will replace the stalwart though ageing P-3 Orion fleet on maritime patrol work. This content

On course for a tricky landing ‘There I was, upside down, over the sea, not very high, when the engine stopped. Suddenly I am in an aviation anecdote come true — and not enjoying it one little bit. I have been flying for 47 years. I have amassed more than 21,600 hours, of which about

Study calling for a second Sydney airport says the time for inaction has passed. That’s not likely. The latest inter-governmental commission to grasp the hot potato of a second Sydney airport released its long-anticipated study on March 2. The product of nearly three years and $8 million worth of work, the 3,000- page report offers