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Centaurus
20th May 2021, 14:03
With regard to the former flight safety magazine Aviation Safety Digest currently available in digital form on the CASA website. While Pprune contributors and readers can readily see how many people have seen or read Pprune forum posts as well as how many have posted on a subject, there is no such facility for checking how many Pprune readers click on to Aviation Safety Digests on the CASA website.

. It would be instructive to know how many readers have clicked on to the ASD’s in order to read them.

Does anyone know if this facility is available? I suspect not. It would be disappointing if it turns out there is a lack of interest as signified by only a small number of readers looking at the digital ASD copies.
A few years ago some of us really pushed the idea of digital copies being made available on the CASA website

If, as it turns out, the number of viewers of the ASD on the CASA website are very few, maybe CASA need to more actively advertise its availability in order to encourage people to read ASD rather than just leave the digital copies gathering dust.
With 150 copies currently available for viewing on the CASA website with an almost limitless number of accident reports, it would be a great pity if todays pilot population had no idea of the ready availibility of these flight safety gems.
Flight Safety Australia the current CASA produced magazine, is only published quarterly. Each issue is limited by page numbers as well as it costs readers money to buy. Thus it can offer only a fraction of the accident reports available from Aviation Safety Digest past issues. The causes of aircraft accidents have changed little since the initial issue of Aviation Safety Digest in 1953.