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Flying the Bankstown Airport lane of entry

Justin Grey takes a trip up Bankstown Airport’s lane of entry while adding the final revision touches to his skills prior to having a crack at the long-awaited General Flying Progress Test (GFPT).

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Instructors and students discuss theInternational School of Aviation Australia flight training experience. This video appears on their premium flying school listing. more »

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The importance of maintaining situational awareness

(Bill Wardle)

A private pilot explains, by way of a hair-raising first-hand account of a near-miss, the importance of maintaining situational awareness.

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LEARNING FROM MISTAKES: Landing a Cessna 210M on its belly

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official accident reports and analyses why things went wrong and what can be learnt.

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Flying the Queensland coast Pt.2

Gorgeous Port Douglas in the tropic far north. (Darren Friend)

In this second chapter on flying the Queensland coast, Darren Friend works his way northward, stretching from the Whitsundays right up to the most northerly point of mainland Australia.