When is a flying career just a job? At my age it’s easy to sit back and reflect on the way things were with whimsical adoration and a failing memory. But, as I look at the lot of an airline pilot in the 21st century it is a vastly different undertaking to when I started

RAAF operations in Afghanistan. When one thinks of the Australian contribution to operations in Afghanistan, the Royal Australian Air Force is not the first thing that comes to mind. Rather, one pictures Army Bushmaster Protected Vehicles patrolling dusty streets and infantrymen interacting with locals. But the RAAF has played an integral role in Australia’s operations

Qantas to standardise A330 cabin configurations? Michael Gisick With the arrival of Qantas’s latest A330-200, VH-EBV Kangaroo Island, the airline announced plans to move all weekday flights between Sydney-Perth and Melbourne-Perth to the Airbus widebody. But that announcement, in turn, has focused attention on the discrepancy in the business class offering aboard the airline’s A330s.

Australian Aviation’s continuing evolution Welcome aboard the 301st issue of Australian Aviation. The last few weeks have been an exciting time for the Australian Aviation crew as we’ve worked to pull together this relaunch edition of the magazine. I hope that excitement and enthusiasm comes through in the quality of the magazine. This content is