Flight Safety Magazine - The end of an era
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Flight Safety Magazine - The end of an era
The Flight Safety Magazine arrived today with a letter from the Director of CASA advising subscribers that this edition is the last printed edition due to cost constraints. 
It will now be an on-line only publication.
How sad is it when our only safety related publication is scraped in it's tactile form. No more safety magazines to lie around the tables at flying schools or crew rooms.
It will now be an on-line only publication.How sad is it when our only safety related publication is scraped in it's tactile form. No more safety magazines to lie around the tables at flying schools or crew rooms.
End of an era? WOFTAM extrordinaire! Not even usable as dunny paper. Right from the very first edition. Now, the original Aviation Safety Digest**...
**You may genuflect now.
**You may genuflect now.
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End of an era? WOFTAM extrordinaire! Not even usable as dunny paper. Right from the very first edition. Now, the original Aviation Safety Digest**...
Still have about the last 20 or so ASDs filed away somewhere and will never dispose of them!
I'm with Daisy. I think it's a good read and as with most on-line things, I will never read them anywhere near as much as printed material. I don't agree with canning that mag.
Here here. I'd scrap the online thing too. Too many recycled articles. Too much overseas stuff. Very little contemporary articles and those that do run have political influence. Nothing pro-active or forward looking about safety. More about adherence to rules than proving material to help tutor better airmanship. The contrast with some of the FAA or US AOPA material is stunning.
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I was referring generally to the magazine from CASA, the old Aviation Safety Digest or the current Flight Safety Mag. Whichever you like/love/hate/despise or otherwise, we no longer will have anything in print. Printed media has a place in safety. It is there, on the table, for people to flick through or read. It is surely of more use than obscure articles on a website.
Yes, but unless the content is any good it goes straight to the rubbish bin. I still have my collection of Aviation Safety Digests. I have zero copies of Flight Safety Magazine. QED.
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I gave away about 10yrs worth of ASD mags to an appreciative flying school. They're still there for students to read.
Ill miss reading the mag (whatever it was/is called), it was my "go to" mag for help in getting to sleep.
Ill miss reading the mag (whatever it was/is called), it was my "go to" mag for help in getting to sleep.
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I've always looked forward to reading Flight Safety Magazine and often keep old copies.
Makes sense to have it online. wish CASA would send out email notifications when a new edition is available.
Makes sense to have it online. wish CASA would send out email notifications when a new edition is available.
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Bollocks
This industry including the airlines and regulator have turned into such a that we might as well post a sticky on prune highlighting this ATSB link :
Safety investigations & reports
There is enough daily/weekly/monthly tomfoolery going on that fills these pages with interesting and disturbing reading!
As for Herr Skulls magazine and his pony pooh 'cost' excuse, pleeeeeeeeeease, spare me. How about ditching those executive salaries, BONUSES and Montreal trips then.
Peter,
I have no doubt they are well and truly soiled also. I imagine the occasional photo's of CASA staff is what really 'floats your boat'!!
Safety investigations & reports
There is enough daily/weekly/monthly tomfoolery going on that fills these pages with interesting and disturbing reading!
As for Herr Skulls magazine and his pony pooh 'cost' excuse, pleeeeeeeeeease, spare me. How about ditching those executive salaries, BONUSES and Montreal trips then.
Peter,
I've always looked forward to reading Flight Safety Magazine and often keep old copies.
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ASD = worth keeping no matter how old the edition
FSD = not even worth dunny reading
FSD = not even worth dunny reading
FSD - I doubt that any self respecting mouse would bother to take a bite out of it on the dunny floor
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I read it from cover to cover because it is, mostly, interesting to me and I am interested in learning from it.
We should appreciate the effort made to produce it although I, too, would prefer a paper copy.
We should appreciate the effort made to produce it although I, too, would prefer a paper copy.
The new mag was as interesting as watching paint dry. That IFR quiz was sometimes good value but the rest....well. Pages of AD's etc. You would have be brain dead to enjoy that stuff.
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