
Regulatory Change
With the Australian civil aviation safety regulation flight operations suite in roll out Techsafe Aviation has developed a compliance management tool to support the transition process

Businesses Managing the Risk of Charter Flights
Does your business use aircraft in the course of normal business such as charter flights or fly-in fly-out operations? Are you concerned about workplace

Help! – I Need an SMS
I was contacted some time ago from a small Australian helicopter operator who had won a contract for survey work. The owner explained to me in scant detail that he needed a Safety Management

Who’s Watching the Drones?
I recently noticed an interesting article in the rural newspaper, the Queensland Country Life about the use of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) on a sheep property in New Zealand. In recent times the humble drone has had a makeover

UAV Safety in Australia
An accident in April 2014 involving an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone as they are commonly referred to, highlights a number of important issues for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), and the operators of these unmanned aircraft

UAV Privacy Concerns
I recently read a report in RT America, that the FAA expects that there could be 7,500 unmanned aerial vehicles (they refer to them as drones) operating in the USA within a decade. Further, the Teal Research Group estimates that global drone