Fly Oz is a flight training school based out of Cowra in central New South Wales. Founded in July 2013, the school has grown in leaps and bounds since. To learn more, Australian Aviation sat down with the school’s head of operations Lyn Gray. This content is available exclusively to Australia Aviation members. Subscribe to

Fly Oz was established on 1 July 2013 by Lyn Gray, who at the time was conducting aviation instruction for the local Cowra community and a few students who had made the journey from Sydney. Quite a modest start. In seven years, we have grown to now deliver over 120 qualifications per year from our

THE FUTURE OF FIGHTING BUSHFIRES. As we mark two years since the Black Summer, Australian Aviation examines what’s changed. SHORTLY BEFORE this edition went to print, The Sydney Morning Herald’seditor, Lisa Davies, announced she was leaving the publication. Before she exited, she wrote a column reminiscing about her proudest moments and pointed to a column

NASA’s very first helicopter to fly on Mars In April of this year, NASA made history, by proving that it is possible to create and sustain powered, controlled flight on Mars, despite its atmosphere being nearly 100 times thinner than that of Earth, with just one-third of the same gravitational pull. Ingenuity was sent to

Australian Aviation talks to Bell about the impeding release of the most-anticipated commercial helicopter in a generation.

In January 2021, the FAA quietly released a new set of supersonic flight test regulations to facilitate the next generation of Concorde successors. Here, Australian Aviation lists the industry big-hitters fighting to be the first to market with smaller, quieter and more environmentally friendly aircraft likely to turn the business jet market on its head

Founded in 2000, Corporate Aircraft Charter is a largely diversified air charter company, with operations that span across the business aviation sector. Its operations include private, FIFO, and aeromedical flight services, with contracts that cater to government agencies, tourism providers and the oil and gas sectors. To learn more about the company, Australian Aviation sat

Former RAAF pilot Alexander Robinson is the co-founder of Airly, a start-up that allows customers to book business jet flights via an app. Here, he predicts what this year has in store for the industry after it welcomed a new generation of customers in 2020 COVID-19’s savaging of the aviation industry will continue to be

Australian Aviation’s annual guide covering the current and future business aviation market.

The last few years have seen a huge number of new entrants and business models radically disrupted the bizjet market Change is the only constant There has been an acceleration of new business models in private aviation. NetJets shifted private aviation beyond simple ownership when it pioneered business jet charter and aircraft management in 1964,

REX IS an airline renowned for doing things differently. As Australia’s largest regional airline, our rich history is peppered with examples of innovative approaches and ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking. This explains how a small regional airline can make more accumulated absolute profits than Qantas since the global financial crisis of 2008 and arrive at the pandemic with

Pip Spence, the newly appointed CEO of CASA, talks to the rotary sector on why she’s determined not to disrupt safety as new regulations come into play this December THE ROTARY wing sector of Australian aviation has been recording steady growth over recent years, with CASA data showing the number of helicopter pilots and airframes