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| Official Newsletter of the Western Australian Aviation College – March 2006 |
From the Principal's Desk |
Welcome to our March issue of CentreLine.
This summer has been a very busy period for our team. The Australian CASA Integrated course, which started in January, was oversubscribed and Class A 2006 have been working hard, albeit they are appreciative of some recent classroom time, with the Perth temperatures souring towards 40°C during the last few weeks.
The JAA Modular Ground School is now well established; with the inaugural CAA exams sat this week at our Perth Exam Centre. Distance learning students are also taking advantage of our newly implemented Web Based Training tools, offering study facilities 24/7. Preparation is also underway for the JAA Integrated ATPL course, commencing July 24th 2006.
We are always available to discuss your aviation education, but more so in the next two weeks. You can meet Craig Peterson at the Flyer Show, Heathrow Airport, London (Sat 25th March). We are also conducting an aviation career education seminar at the Hyatt Regency, Perth on Thursday, 16th March. See our web site for tickets to the Perth seminar.
I hope you enjoy this issue.
Happy flying.
Mark Cheveralls |
FREE Career Information Seminar
to be held on 16th March 2006 at the Hyatt Hotel Perth 7–9pm. Bookings essential, friends and family welcome.
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Helicopter News |
It’s always great to be able to acknowledge our
students' achievements. We have had several students pass important milestones recently
and I will quickly list them here. Tony Habrow is our first correspondence student to gain his licence. He successfully completed his PPL and has also completed all of the CPL theory exams. Well done Tony, I hope you will be the first of many. Our full-time students have been busy as well. Dave, Ginny and Warwick all passed their BAK exams and James is now a PPL licence
holder. At the risk of inflating their egos, I must say that all of these students have
approached their training with enthusiasm and dedication. Their hard work is now beginning
to pay off. We have many more students who are approaching important tests. I wish them
all luck and look forward to listing their achievements in the next issue.  James is now officially a helicopter pilot
Safe flying! |
The Western Australian Aviation College is now offering students excellence in pilot training (Advanced Diploma in Aviation Studies) and graduates an opportunity to continue their studies in Management (B.Com) at university. • In only three years you will have completed two highly recognised qualifications. • The combination will make you more employable and open up more career options. The duration of the course is three years full-time. The theoretical and practical flying training (Advanced Diploma in Aviation) is completed at the college facilities at Jandakot Airport using specialists from the military and general aviation industry. The Bachelor of Commerce degree in Management follows at Murdoch University. Call today for more information on |
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Comedy Corner |
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Air New Zealand to fly direct to Adelaide Air New Zealand will commence direct services between Auckland and Adelaide from 26 March 2006. The airline will introduce three direct flights a week between Auckland and Adelaide contributing more than 43,000 passenger seats Jetstar to wing its way to Perth Low-cost carrier Jetstar will start services to Perth from Melbourne Avalon Airport on March 28. The daily service will see hundreds of additional Eastern States visitors land in Perth each week, bringing in valuable tourism dollars and creating jobs and opportunities for locals. Jetstar's low fares will inject competition into the market and make WA a viable option for those people who have long had this State at the top of their wish list, but have been deterred by flight costs. It has been very successful on all its routes in attracting people who have never flown before and in offering fares that are very competitive. OzJet heading to Perth OzJet has announced plans to take to Western Australian skies, with a Perth-to-Melbourne service due to commence from March 6. OzJet plans to operate one service in and out of Perth daily from Sunday to Friday. Owner, Paul Stoddart said OzJet had decided on Perth because of feedback from the market, particularly people who had already flown OzJet on the Sydney-Melbourne route. OzJet will operate from Terminal 3, the old Ansett Terminal in Perth, which has been updated and refurbished to include new food and beverage outlets, and will fly into Melbourne Airport. It will fly Boeing 737 aircraft on the service configured to 60 full-business class seats. One way fares from Perth to Melbourne will start at $400 with a maximum fare of $800. Qantas Board Chooses Boeing Qantas have selected the Boeing 787 as the cornerstone of its domestic and international fleet renewal program. Under the fleet plan, the Qantas Group will acquire 115 B787 aircraft for Qantas mainline and Jetstar use. Chairman of Qantas, Ms Margaret Jackson said, "This fleet plan will give us a modern fleet offering maximum flexibility, lower seat mile costs and greater fuel efficiency”. The aircraft will cater for international capacity growth and new routes, as well as replacing the Qantas Group's fleet of wide-body Boeing 767-300s. Qantas CEO, Mr Geoff Dixon said, “The Boeing 787 is ideal for operating to Asia, as well the USA and Europe, and with 300 seats, will enable both Qantas and Jetstar to closely target markets without compromising efficiency”. The B787's lighter fuselage, constructed from composite material, allowed the aircraft to fly further with a full payload, burn less fuel, fly faster than any other aircraft of its size and reduce maintenance costs. |
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NAME Carlos Tepait, Jr AGE 32 PLACE OF BIRTH Cebu City, Philippines NICKNAMES AND WHY? Carlos the Jackal (from the movie) PREVIOUS JOB/S Manufacturing equipment engineer MY FAVOURITE PASTIMES Watching my fave TV series (Lost, Alias, 24 etc) Surfing the net (discovering new things) Reading books, magazines and newspapers FUTURE GOALS To be in the best airline (of course!). But I will have to start in the smaller ones first. BEST AIRBORNE MOMENT TO DATE? My first solo flight (VH-RWQ) Those long trips during my solo consolidations (getting lost, bumpy weather, kangaroo landings, site-seeing in Hyden, Wave Rock etc) |
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Wizards Quiz
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March question: When referring to circuit entries, what does a pitch involve? A pitch is a common means of joining the circuit for military aircraft. It involves starting from an Initial Point, typically 5 nm downwind of the landing threshold. The aircraft flies as though joining upwind, then does a steep turn through 180° over the runway, losing speed and rolling out on downwind. The turn onto downwind is known as pitching. Some typical figures – a Hawk (RAAF lead-in fighter) will usually fly through Initial at 350 KIAS, and the pitch is a 3g turn, with power idle and speedbrake out, in which the speed will reduce below VLE, which is 200 KIAS.
This month’s question: On a WAC that extends from 28°S to 32°S, which latitudes will be the standard parallels? |
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| Kevin Lathbury |
Notes from the Mad Medic |
Seeing is believing
The human body evolved to walk the earth in an upright stance and has been tuned to respond in a particular way to the sensations elicited by the force of gravity on land. Our ability to remain perpendicular to the earth’s various surfaces is a learned response, which relies on a combination of vision and a very sophisticated sense of balance. A set of tiny organs in the inner ear made up of the semicircular canals and the otolith, otherwise known as the vestibular system combines with the proprioceptive mechanism (receptors in the joints and muscles) to tell us whether we are accelerating, changing direction, and which way is up. This system however is far from foolproof, particularly in flight because it relies upon sensations created by forces acting on the body. On land the force of gravity for instance acts vertically down and the pressure exerted by this force on our joints and muscles tells us which way is up. In flight such forces can be artificially created in any direction and, without visual cues to verify our position in space, disorientation can result with fatal consequences. It follows therefore that we should never completely trust sensations to orientate ourselves while flying and avoid conditions where vision cannot verify these messages. Pilots, who find themselves in the unlucky situation of unexpected IMC (such as cloud or complete darkness) should direct their gaze to something they can rely on. Hence the phrase ‘Always trust your instruments’. More on this next time. Keep safe.
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