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.

Good riddance - it was a waste of paper anyway!

Dr :8

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.

Agreed! I never thought the FSM was even a poor substitute for the 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.

Also agree that the old ASD was better. I guess that is why they recycle so many articles from it!

:rolleyes: 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.

ASD = worth keeping no matter how old the edition
FSD = not even worth dunny reading

Anyone spot the difference?

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.

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.

On another note, does this mean no more double month defective calendars? :{

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'!!

ASD - worth gold for its education value

FSD - I doubt that any self respecting mouse would bother to take a bite out of it on the dunny floor

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.

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.

I used to skim it. Like others have said, I will not even skim the online version.:zzz:
Had tried for years to cancel wife's second copy!:ugh:

........gunna miss that rag,keeps me wood fire going for at least 2 mins with the crap that's in it!



Wmk2

She got two copies?? No wonder it cost so much! :}