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.

Bit like the cocked up story on the PA-30/39 undercarriage many years ago.

mostly a propaganda machine for the mpl these days

Truth be told, I only read it on the throne. :sad:

Off with his head!

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.

Proof reading is certainly not one of their strengths.

In the latest offering, it twice refers to flying to Tasmania across the Tasman Sea :ugh:

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. :mad:

In the article on Mac Job.....

A TAA F27 crashed in the sea off Cairns in 1960!! Apparently!

Mackay, i think it was.