Author: DavePilkington

Back again with more disinformation from the Australian Government’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority at Performance charts: believe what you see | Flight Safety Australia…

From a recent CASA magazine article https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/…/aviate…/“Kreisha Ballantyne takes a look at the effectiveness of aviation safety awareness campaigns in Australia and overseas.Some days…

https://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/conference-set-to-address-uprt-instruction gives a good introduction to this topical subject.Incidentally, I see many photos and videos of aircraft doing aerobatics in formation with other aircraft…

For a very long time, until about 2020, CASA mandated incipient spin training as part of the basic training for RPL or PPL. They…

We will soon have an Australian edition of Rich Stowell’s excellent book Stall/Spin Awareness – every pilot, especially flight instructors should read the relevant…

This coroner’s report on the accident to Martinus Van Hattem is essential reading for aerobatic flight instructors. There are four main lessons for us in this:…

From the CASA Briefing on 11th Decenber 2023: “Everything we do is driven by safety and we understand most people in the aviation industry…

Read the proposal by CASA online here. It seems like a good idea as it is simply a streamlining of the process that I…