Flight Safety Australia

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...

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 calculations can be a challenge in flight planning. Yet every aircraft ever certified is built around strict limits for a reason....

Luke Chaplain bought his first drone on a uni trip in Hong Kong. It was a far cry from his home in regional Queensland...

A series of seemingly sensible actions contributed to the pilot of an Aero Commander 500 approaching the wrong runway at Moorabbin airport and flying...

Peter Gash has seen many changes since 1985 when he and his wife Julie joined Seair Pacific. Over that time the single aircraft joy flight operator that he and Julie bought in 1989 has grown into a 10 aircraft operation, with hangars and facilities at Coolangatta and Hervey Bay airports and about 100 employees.

Calibration of the instruments used in aircraft overhaul and repair is a small but vital aspect of maintenance safety.

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...

A glider pilot is shaken by an encounter with the sheer power of nature

A simple mistake haunts an unnamed pilot.

The textbook reactions of a low-hours pilot facing a deteriorating situation show how ab initio training works – if you listen and take its...

Almost too late, a young pilot learns the importance of assertiveness as part of flight control

A truly frightening story about an insidious technical failure masked by cognitive bias.

I was painfully aware that the prop could completely disintegrate at any moment