Drone flyer diary: Grant Eaton
Grant Eaton wasn't looking for a career in drones, but a chance encounter fired his imagination. He is now a highly qualified chief remote...
Following the dream
Following his work supporting rescue crew operations during the response to Cyclone Alfred in Queensland last March, Nautilus Aviation’s Safety and Quality Manager, Daniel...
Drone flyer diary: Danny Elassad
Danny Elassad did not plan for drones to become his full-time career. He began flying to capture new angles for his landscape photography, but...
Weight and balance: your first line of defence
Weight and balance calculations can be a challenge in flight planning. Yet every aircraft ever certified is built around strict limits for a reason....
Drone flyer diary: Luke Chaplain
Luke Chaplain bought his first drone on a uni trip in Hong Kong. It was a far cry from his home in regional Queensland...
Nav system guided pilot to wrong runway
A series of seemingly sensible actions contributed to the pilot of an Aero Commander 500 approaching the wrong runway at Moorabbin airport and flying...
A tense examination
Calibration of the instruments used in aircraft overhaul and repair is a small but vital aspect of maintenance safety.
Ring of fire
A tiny, inexpensive part was ignored for decades until it failed, with dreadful consequences.
The fiery crash of a 44-year-old Mooney MJ201 in 2022 remains...
Tanks for nothing
With up to 70-knot westerly winds forecast at higher altitudes, I calculated a longer-than-usual flight from Bankstown to Griffith in NSW. It would also...
And then I got high
A glider pilot is shaken by an encounter with the sheer power of nature
The night I went over the edge
A simple mistake haunts an unnamed pilot.
Fast-thinking fledging
The textbook reactions of a low-hours pilot facing a deteriorating situation show how ab initio training works – if you listen and take its...
Blundering through the authority gap
Almost too late, a young pilot learns the importance of assertiveness as part of flight control
Reality under pressure
A truly frightening story about an insidious technical failure masked by cognitive bias.
