Wildlife Incident and accident records have historically shown a significant amount of occurrences involving wildlife strikes. Read more>> January 15, 2016
Australia's Voluntary Confidential Aviation Reporting Scheme The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's (ATSB) confidential reporting system, REPCON, allows people with a safety concern relating to aviation to disclose them to the ATSB. Read more>> April 22, 2015
A Year in Review The Australian Airline Pilots' Association (AusALPA) came into being in 1997 after a decision was made for AIPA to be part of the International Air Line Pilots' Federations' (IFALPA) global pilot network. Read more>> April 19, 2015
IFALPA AGE Committee Meeting The annual IFALPA Aerodrome Ground Environment (AGE) Committee meeting took place from 30 September to 2 October 2015 in Casablanca, Morocco. Read more>> April 18, 2015
Rule of 65: 'You're Too Old!' You're too old to be an international pilot! They are words that no one wants to hear - that no one should hear... let alone type for an article to appear in a pilot magazine. Read more>> April 8, 2015
IFALPA Aircraft Design and Operations Committee Meeting The IFALPA Aircraft Design and Operations (ADO) Committee held a meeting that was hosted by Boeing in Seattle, USA at the end of June 2015. Read more>> March 20, 2015
Safety "Round-Up" This article gives a brief "round-up" of the recent activities of the Committee's six Portfolios. Read more>> March 18, 2015
IFALPA Conference The annual International Federation of Air Line PIlots' Associations (IFALPA) conference was held in Madrid in April 2015. Read more>> March 8, 2015
Aviation Meteorology Product Update In early 2014 I was involved, on behalf of the Australian Airline Pilots' Association (AusALPA), in a comprehensive review of aviation meteorological services conducted by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). Read more>> February 23, 2015
Sharing Your Transport Safety Concerns, Confidentially We've all been there. The moment when you see something that just doesn't seem quite right. There's a problem in front of you, and while it may not have caused an accident yet, you can easily imagine how one day, maybe one day soon, it could end badly. Read more>> February 22, 2015