During a visit to Noel Kruse’s ffigh Flight Performance Training Centre earlier this year, I was given the opportunity to fly the school’s Siai Marchetti 260. It is a superb looking aircraft, ageless in appearance, and as I was to discover for myself, it has the handling performance of a thoroughbred. I first saw the

Badgerys Creek Master Plan Slated as Unlikely to Attract Potential Users The Federal Government had a two-fold plan to preserve the Badgerys Creek site for airport purposes: first, to declare it a federal airport development site; and second, to consolidate this declaration by establishing a general aviation (GA) airport. But the Parliamentary Standing Committee on

How Coke Nearly Hit the Spot Prior to the Korean War, the RAN FAA operated its Fireflies and Sea Furies from HMAS Sydney in much the same fashion as had been done during the previous conflict. The catapult was rarely used as it was quicker to fly aircraft off in a free takeoff from a

Australian Atc to Have an Automated Future Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) is quite simply the automation of Air Traffic Control (ATC) as we know it. ATC is based primarily on three elements, communication, navigation and surveillance. However, each of these systems have a major limitation; They are strictly line of sight systems. Therefore, oceanic control