Australian Flying May-June 2016 is available right now! You can get it through your subscription, off the newsagent shelves or on your iPad. This issue is adorned with a Steve Hitchen shot of a classic Cessna C177 Cardinal loitering around Mount Dandenong in Victoria. Underneath the cover is a whole world of general aviation articles just waiting to be discovered.
Continung her safari around the south-east of Western Australia, Shelley Ross discovers Dirk Hartog Island, Wooleen Station, a US president and some statues in a desert.
Philip Smart takes a backward look at the 50-year old decision to scrap Australian production of the Victa Airtourer. It broke the industry's collective heart, and the ache continues to this day.
Flying charter in the country's remote north was once the well-trodden path to the airlines, but in today's fast-track world, many young CPLs want the right-seat of an airliner almost straight away. As Steve Hitchen found out, they may be forfeiting a very valuable flying experience if they do.
Aviation has gone ape over iPads and the various apps that make life a lot easier in the cockpit, but Adam Starr of Starr Aviation believes the training industry needs to get on board and start teaching students to use them right.
Moorabbin Flying Services has gone all-out and installed a full-motion Piper Seminole flight simulator to enhance their students' experiences. Does it make for better transition to the real thing? Steve Hitchen gave it a go.
Once again Jim Davis has your back. In Masterclass he covers some things that flying instructors should teach but don't: airmanship and tying-down. If you think they are straight forward, read this article and you might have to change your mind.
No-one wants to be stuck in the Never-Never by a minor glitch that won't let you get back in the air, so as a pilot you can do a certain amount of maintenance to get you going again. Steve Hitchen digs deeply into Schedule 8 to find out what you can and can't do to your aeroplane.
When an aeroplane's engine stops completely, pilots swing into action based on their training. But what happens if the engine only partially fails? Suddenly you're confronted with a whole swag of variables that you were never trained to cope with. Philip Smart reports.
Plus Products and Innovation, 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.
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