Australian Flying November-December 2016 is ready now for your reading pleasure! We've certainly given you a wide variety of aviation subjects to ingest this issue, covering helicopters, Piper Cubs, Plastic Parrots, skywriting and home simulators. There's also the Wings Awards announcements and our comprehensive guide to tertiary aviation training. You'll find all that underneath a magnificent cover shot of a Beechcraft King Air 350i.
Congratulations are offered to all the winners in the 2016 Wings Awards, presented by the Australian Division of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Australian Flying.
In Destinations, home-build tragic Martin Hone and friends explore the top end of Australia to tick-off more thinks on their late-life to-do lists.
Do you know what you're getting yourself in for when you sign up for a course of study? Our Tertiary Training Guide gives you the best available advice and lays out all the options so you can make a good choice.
Home-simmer Tim Wakemen looks at new technology in home simulators and examines how real-world pilots are using them as valuable training tools.
Steve Hitchen gets his mitts on a CT-4B and takes it for a joyous ride! The much-loved Plastic Parrot has been the mainstay of military basic flight training in Australia for 40 years, and with its career coming to an end, Hitch finds out they'd make a great civil yahoo machine.
One helicopter crash has made the industry think about how it operates at night. Steve Hitchen was invited to Becker Helicopters on the Sunshine Coast to see why night VFR in helicopters is so knife-edge and how night vision goggles are making it much safer.
In Lessons from a Logbook, Jim Davis remembers his days flying the ubiquitous Piper Cub and the watershed moment his instructor pointed him to the sky and said "thou shalt spin."
Whatever became of the skywriting industry? Scott Mackillop investigates the decline of a once desired form of advertising and finds an Adelaide company that is using innovation to revolutionise the industry.
Glenn Alford made yet another pilgrimage to Oshkosh in July, which is good for all of us because he sent back a stunning collection of photos. We present to you the best of the best from his camera.
Plus Products and Innovation, A Spot of Recreation, Good Sports, Rotors, What Can We Learn, The Kernels of Wheatie, Short Final, Airmail and more aviation news and views to keep you in the loop.
If you haven't got it yet, get to your local newsagent before the shelf slot is empty!