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Australian Aerial Application Association (AAAA) CEO Phil Hurst has called for cultural and structural change at CASA, pointing to earlier inquiry recommendations as evidence of the need. Hurst made the comments in September whilst giving evidence to Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport (RRAT) References Committee inquiry into general aviation. "We think we've got to reform CASA to make it efficient and regulate general aviation in sensible manner," he said, "and that includes a major independent and cultural review of CASA, a major structural change within CASA to create a general aviation division, and a create an independent industry-based taskforce to rewrite the rulesets that are terribly impacting on GA at the moment. "It's not just our industry [aerial application] that's struggling with this, the general aviation industry in…

1 Pipistrel signs Deal for Hungarian Manufacture 2 Brisbane Airshow falls to COVID 3 Greg Hood returns to Āirservices 4 CĀSĀ to review Mangalore Āirspace 5 We Need to Improve Relationships: Spence 6 CĀSR Part 43 not Straightforward: ĀMROBĀ 7 Sonex makes Plans for High-wings 8 Behind EĀSĀ Part-DTO 9 What became of the Beechcraft SIDs 10 ĀOPĀ Āustralia back on the Medicals Warpath SIGN UP TO KEEP UP! The Āustralian Flying website is updated daily with the latest GA news stories. Visit us online now at www.australianflying.com.au to also check out our free classifieds section, photo and video galleries, blogs, flying tips articles and comprehensive Warbird coverage. Ānd be sure to register for our FREE weekly electronic newsletter, which delivers the latest news FREE to your inbox every Friday…

Moorabbin-based helicopter company Microflite has signed a partnership with Embraer spin-off Eve Urban Air Mobility to develop electric vertical aircraft (EVA) capability for use in Australia, Embraer announced in September. Microflite operates a fleet of 19 helicopters including EC120s, Squirrels, H135 and a Bell 212. The partnership will see some of the fleet used as proof-of-concept to validate parameters that will apply to future electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft operations. Microflite has been working with Eve since 2019 by contributing to the Concept of Operations developed jointly between Eve and Airservices Australia. This work laid the foundation for exploring new and practical concepts to safely facilitate the introduction of air taxis in Melbourne. “This partnership is an exciting development for Microflite," said Microflite CEO Jonathan Booth. "Australia needs…

Taking an aeroplane away to a remote airport and leaving it overnight has a certain amount of trepidation attached. Are the tie-downs at the airport suitable? How will I chock the wheels? If you’ve got plenty of payload and can afford to throw in the heavy wooden or rubber chocks, your mind will be a greater rest than if you’ve had to leave them behind. One answer is to take light-weight travel chocks with you, and Forbes Aviation Products manufacture make a suitable range for doing just that. Manufactured from powder-coated, heattreated aluminium, the FAP travel chocks come in 10-inch to suit 6.000 tyres and six-inch to suit 5.500 tyres and smaller. The 10-inch series have 89 mm x 89 mm legs and are 203 mm long and made from…

Ā large portion of the civil aviation industry have diametrically opposed views of the current regulatory reform direction that CASA is pursuing, based on a decision to follow EASA and not the FAA. This direction has resulted in so many lodged differences to the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annexes, that it is now very obvious why other countries and their National Aviation Authorities (NAA) are not accepting CASA product certification and civil aviation products and services. The vast majority of the industry didn’t want the EASA engineering system and still don’t. This was passionately demonstrated by all attendees at the GA meetings in Tamworth (2016) and Wagga Wagga (2018). Does anyone in government or CASA properly understand Australia’s obligations under the convention that it signed in 1947? Why is…

An ambitious new helicopter concept emerging from the UK looks set to challenge the existing status quo in the helicopter industry world-wide. The Hill Helicopters HX50 is a five-seat single with retractable landing gear that will present customers with high level of technology and automation, with lower acquisition and operating costs as key features of the offering. With an MTOW of 1650 kg and a payload of 800 kg, the HX50 has a projected cruise of 140 KTAS and will hover at 10,000 feet out of ground effect on an ISO day at MTOW, and will execute a vertical climb of 500 fpm under those conditions. "Fundamentally, the HX50 is the first cleansheet helicopter in decades," said Chairman and Chief Engineer Jason Hill. "Everything about this aircraft is new technology.…

Textron Aviation conducted an engine run in the Beechcraft Denali prototype for the first time in August, paving the way for a maiden flight by the end of 2021. The engine, a 1300-shp GE Catalyst turbo-prop, was put through 2450 hours of testing before being installed in the Denali. "These successful engine runs are a significant step toward the upcoming inaugural flight for the Beechcraft Denali, and they are a testament to the determination and collaboration from both the Textron Aviation and GE Aviation teams,” said Chris Hearne, Textron senior vice president, Engineering. “The Denali features a technologically advanced engine that burns less fuel. It has an intuitive avionics suite that eases pilot workload and boasts the most spacious cabin in its segment. We are excited to get this aircraft…

Aeroplanes need space on the ground to get in the air and return to earth. They need long runways and wide expanses around them during the transition from earth to ground and back again. That's one of the reasons why airports are so large and there are such things as obstacle limitation surfaces. The story for helicopters is completely different. Although as a rule they don't have the speed-forpower ratio of fixed-wings, they do have the luxury of vertical flight at forward speeds approaching or reaching zero knots. They are highly manoeuvrable and can turn, literally, within their own diameter. That sort of capability makes them perfect for squeezing into and out of small areas defined by obstacles like trees and buildings. And yet, my inbox is often infused with…

Remember the old days, when there was an onsite briefing office at the airport? Long before iPhones and tablets, retrieving weather and filing flight plans was a process that involved a physical briefing office, on-site at larger airports. Bankstown Briefing Office, located in what’s now the terminal building, was staffed by Flight Service, ATC and staff from the Bureau of Meteorology, who were known colloquially as the "Met Men". All the capital city secondary airports had a briefing office, and so too did the many regional centres where Flight Service had a base. The Met Men would verbally brief pilots and hand out printed weather forecasts, containing TAFs and ARFORs with the en route winds (it would be the job of the pilot to whip out the whizz wheel and…

A new aviation association has been formed to support and advocate for the flight training industry in Australia. Announced in September, the new association is called the Australian Flight Training Industry Association (AFTIA) and has been formed in response to what has been seen as under-representation of the sector in Canberra. AFTIA will operate as an incorporated association run by a board. The chair of that board is Moorabbin Flying Services' Maddy Johnson. "Currently, the flight training sector is fragmented and has no representative body to speak collectively for all levels of aviation training from high capacity regular public transport (RPT) to the local flying school level," Johnson said. "This has resulted in a disconnect between industry and government at a time of regulatory reform when FTOs [Flight Training Organisations]…

General aviation in Australia may never have a better opportunity to achieve real reform than it has right now. For the first time in many decades, there is an appetite for change emerging at both the regulator and the department that could deliver general aviation from its bureaucratic bondage. It is becoming apparent that the shackles are starting to loosen under repeated blows. However, there is doubt that the GA community is in any shape to take advantage of that opportunity. The status quo is full of barriers to progress, and neither the Department of Infrastructure and Transport nor the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) seem prepared to move away from that until a better alternative emerges; an alternative that is clearly supported by GA experts so that bureaucrats and…

As aviation has evolved, the most immediately identifiable change is the advancement of aircraft design and technology. From frail wood and fabric biplanes have grown aircraft capable of supersonic speeds and global travel, ranging in size from private light aircraft to commercial mammoths. Less noticeable are the enhancements in safety that have taken place. From hit-and-miss flying training and perilous first solo flights, aviation has adapted to have structured training techniques and even established itself as a leading light in considering the role of human factors in safety. Still, for all the progress, there are those events that continue to occur with tragic consequences despite modern technology and training. Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) claims its fair share, particularly when the cloud meets the hills, and another culprit is often…

For readers unfamiliar with Chapter 1 of the Book of Ecclesiastes, the following wise words can be found in Verse 9: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Even when it first flew in 1966, the Cessna 177 Cardinal was nothing new. It was basically a modernised Cessna 172. In fact, it was even designated the Cessna 172J, and it was intended to supersede the previous 172. (In turn, the 172 had started out as the 170C, a tricycle version of the Cessna 170, and replaced the 170 in the Cessna stable.) A shiny, ground-breaking, game-changing design disrupter isn’t always an assured winner. Sometimes the best things build on existing successes and reputations. Sometimes it’s a…

December 2021 is a key month in modern aviation in Australia. On the second day of the month a major package of new safety regulations take effect. This package of regulations has become known as the flight operations suite and consists of six parts of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations. These cover the general operating and flight rules, large and small aeroplane air transport, rotorcraft air transport, aerial work and certification and management for air operator certificate holders. The scope of the package means just about everyone in Australian aviation needs to know about the new rules and what they mean to their operations. All pilots and air operators are affected by the general operating and flight rules contained in the new Part 91 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations.…