Caa Revising Maintenance Legislation Sweeping changes to aircraft maintenance legislation and surveillance have been foreshadowed in a six page circular aircraft operators issued by the Civil Aviation Authority. The changes, to be promulgated in October, are to take effect from 1 January 1991 and are part of an overall program of rationalisation being undertaken on

HAA Versus the Spcc The Helicopter Association of Australia (HAA) is involved in a fight which, if lost, could see the virtual end of urban helicopter operations in Australia. The dispute, with the NSW State Pollution Control Commission (SPCC), is over that department’s understanding of noise standards. The HAA also claims the SPCC is attempting

The Canadian Experience This is the first of a three part series examining the effects of deregulation in other countries. Next issue we analyse the New Zealand experience while in our November edition, we look at the Australian scene and survey what might lie ahead in the coming year for domestic air travellers. The theory