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First-hand accounts from pilots on how they went wrong and how the rest of us can learn from their mishaps. Submit yours to justingrey@yaffa.com.au to win a prize.


No way to treat a Bonanza

All aircraft require a degree of tender loving care, especially this Bonanza. By Leonard Sherwood-Free.

I spy with my little pilot eye...

You cannot put a price tag on acute situational awareness. This observant My Story pilot was on the ball, helping avert a potentially hairy situation and boosting his self-confidence in the process.

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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.