The restless energy you’ve grown familiar with since becoming a pilot surges through your veins. You look at the sky, quietly praying that nothing will affect your cross-country adventure, come Friday ...

Your take-off was flawless. Your approach? Textbook. And then – taxi time. One hand on the stick, while the other completes post-landing checks. Next, your mind drifts off to how buttery your landing ...

All personnel understand their SMS responsibilities. This includes reporting safety issues, participating in safety activities and raising concerns or errors without fear or blame. Personnel should be ...

Early on 16 June 2025, a Cessna 182T took off from a private aircraft landing area near Emerald, in inland central Queensland, with a pilot and a passenger on board. They were heading about 425 nm, or ...

Are you an aviation safety manager or know someone who is? If so, why not apply for one of this year’s CASA safety manager scholarships, or encourage a colleague to put their name in the running?

Airline transport faces an enviable problem: how does it improve an already impressive safety record? Doing so may be beyond human capability, but well within the potential of two computing ...

When Patrick Hudson emphasises the importance of culture he means more than occasional visits to the opera house or art gallery. Organisational culture and accidents are inextricably linked, Hudson ...

Every pilot flying twins remembers the mantra driven into them during their initial training: Maintain Control, Mixture Up, Pitch Up, Power Up, Gear Up, Flap Up, Dead Leg—Dead Engine, Confirm, ...

Despite being born into an aviation family and being drilled from an early age in propeller awareness, I had the extremely sobering experience of coming within a few microseconds of causing a serious ...

Meet Dean West, a Darwin-bred dad-of-four and veteran, whose day job involves supporting emergency services and averting disasters with the aid of cutting-edge drone technology. Over the past 8 years, ...

Airmanship may sound old school but former British Airways captain Eric Moody argues it is just as important now as it was when he and his crew struggled to restart all 4 engines on his Boeing 747-200 ...

Over its 100 years Qantas has acquired an enviable reputation for safe operation. It has not lost an aircraft since 1960 and not had a fatal accident since 1951. How did it build this record and what ...