CASA's FSA Mag wins top award
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The memory is fading in this aging body but was there not an analysis of an engine failure in a PA-28 over Phillip Bay which the esteemed magazine put down to a flat battery? No electricity to feed the mags if I recall. No whips please, I've been wrong before.
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The old Avuation Safety Digest was only distributed to those in the industry, and the facts were very accurate (nearly always). It had to be accurate for a readership of aviators.
The rot set in when it was made available to the general public, and published by a fepartment that had had an influx of ex army jet helicopter pilots who had no idea what a magneto or a propellor was. They did not seem to know what proof reading was. They dropped some real clangers to prove it.
The latest mag is a prettied up version of this, which is a promotional magazine for our aviation and aviation authorities.
I have to wonder if any of their staff have any aviation knowledge.
The rot set in when it was made available to the general public, and published by a fepartment that had had an influx of ex army jet helicopter pilots who had no idea what a magneto or a propellor was. They did not seem to know what proof reading was. They dropped some real clangers to prove it.
The latest mag is a prettied up version of this, which is a promotional magazine for our aviation and aviation authorities.
I have to wonder if any of their staff have any aviation knowledge.
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hey Bushy....Yeah i remember the article on THAT hero in the Chieftain....the bloke's a bl00dy mug and they made him out to be a bl00dy hero....plus the thing was sooo overweight. 
