Drone flyer diary – Josh Orr
From a young Nipper to a qualified surf life saver operating drones for Surf Life Saving NSW, Josh found a way to merge his...
Avalon 2025 takes off today
It is that time again. Preparations are now finalised for one of the biggest industry and operational events on the aviation calendar, the Avalon Airshow.
Congratulations to the winners of our flight planning gear giveaway
Congratulations to the winners of our flight planning gear giveaway
Finding your niche: Clark Tidman
Clark Tidman’s career in aviation isn’t your typical story. There was no staring up at planes passing overhead as a boy, there was no...
Unlock the door to open up the world
AME scholarship winner Mitchell Johnson has aviation in his blood
Drone flyer diary: Sam Nuttall
Sam Nuttall is thrilled to be working at the cutting edge of drone light show technology.
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...
Dirty plus thirty
A 12-factor classification of maintenance hazards remains as relevant as it was in 1993. Gordon Dupont’s' dirty dozen’, identifies manageable distinct safety problems, breaking a huge vague challenge into 12 smaller ones.
A brutal hazing
Audio adds a new dimension to Flight Safety Australia reader Nic Barnes' story about how things are different up north
As a VFR private pilot...
Double blind
I was flying from Jandakot to Rottnest Island, a flight of about 15 minutes. It was a beautiful day for flying, with no clouds...
The weather in your head
It was mid-July 2023 and I was very excited to fly my first cross-country navigation flight that would have more than one stop. I...
Flight planning fail
Nothing emphasises the importance of flight planning like that knotted feeling in your gut when you have failed to do it. This pilot got...
Dam close-run thing
In May this year I was flying my Vans RV7A from Forrest to Kalgoorlie, with another pilot. We were heading to my home airport,...
Things that go wrong in the night
After a particularly bad day at work where everything seemed to have gone wrong, I was booked for the last dual night navigation exercise...
