NEWSLETTER Vol.6, No.22: October 1999

Contents:

• The voyage of the survivors of the M.V. Tulagi
• Floatplane crash at Calabash Bay
• Incat pierces Canary routes
• The Kapton wire controversy
• Piracy can be beaten ... hard problems, easy solutions
• In pursuit of pirates
• Incidents at Sea: the grounding of the Fitzroy River at the port of Weipa on 24 August 1998
• Pseudolite: what is it and what can it do?
• Capital punishment at sea ... polluters could lose all
• GPS ... IAIN news
• Trimble ... support for the America's Cup challenge in 2000
• GPS receivers to run out of weeks

Contents:

• Technology, training and the shipowner
• LADS Mk II - survey operations
• New procedures for Sydney's parallel runways
• Nordic Institute of Navigation - there may be trouble ahead
• Glonass to be fully functional by 2002
• TAAATS transition on schedule - historic TAAATS flight out of Melbourne
• Poor ships to get the point in the US
• Morse code is (almost) dead ... CMDSS is born
• Letters
• Worried about competence - training needed for unpopular system
• A collector's tale (the joy of sextants and other navigational aids)
• Traffic radio
• P&O faces claim for research disruption
• Steering failure caused collision

Contents:

• Shallow draft, deep impact
• "Monarch of the Sea" hits rocks
• Boost for Aussie cruising
• Dassault Aviation to develop supersonic Falcon
• The transition from paper to digital charts
• Component life
• Air Safety Occurrence Reports: general aviation
• To stay afloat - use the right datum
• Rhumb Lines - personal views from Sinbad
• Media release: The Australian Hydrographic Office
• Japanese look north - new routes are sought to avoid piracy
• Differential GPS - is it for you?

Contents:

• Airbus A3XX, Flagship of the 21st century
• Future high-speed shipping technology
• Powerlines
• 1998 Annual Report of the Australian Institute of Navigation
• Dept. of Transport Incidents at Sea: City of Burnie, 15.3.98
• Good ergonomics, good economics
• ICAO States coordinate Year 2000 approach

Contents:

• Electronic chart navigation
• Cat route challenger
• The residual effects of alcohol
• "See and avoid", Asia-Pacific Air safety
• Calculations - air traffic procedures
• Dept. of Transport Incidents at Sea: Thebes, 11.6.97
• GPS "unaffected" by Year 2000 issue
• Eulogy: Allan James Hughes DFC FAIN MAN
• BIMCO press release

Contents:

• Bridge resource management
• Piracy in the South East Asia area
• Ekranoplans or WIGS, or WISE or GEMS or Flying Ships
• Airline operations: which switch?
• Submissions called for GNSS transition planning
• IMO Sub-committee on Safety of Navigation: the use of Raster Chart Display Systems (RCDS)
• Dept. of Transport Incidents at Sea: Helicopter crash, Cape Arnhem, 25.2.97
• Unidentified aircraft
• Media release: SIT good shipping news for seafarers with industry & TAFE partnership
• GPS approaches implemented

Contents:

• An application of technology in marine environmental protection within the Torres Strait and Great Barrier Reef
• New navigation performance standard (RNP10) for trans-Tasman routes
• Electronic chart navigation trials in Australia
• The Navigator's Leg: how satellite communications & navigation equipment has revolutionised the race to win the Whitbread
• AIN/ANMM Seminar
• Dept. of Transport Incidents at Sea: STS Leeuwin, 12.6.96
• New product release: "MicroPilot" GPS product

Contents:

• The development and use of the Pilot Aid Manoeuvring System PAMS
• The Pertpetual Alamanac
• Book Review: Global Positioning Systems - Theory and Practice
• Ship radio transponders for environmental protection and collision avoidance
• Bureau of Air Safety Investigation Report: Boeing 747-312 Sydney Airport, 19.10.94
• First female commanding officer of navy ships returns to Cairns
• King of the Australian Coast
• Australia's "Flagship" is sold
• Basic user interface standards - GPS in general aviation
• Navigating the NASA Space Shuttle
• REEFREP on course

Contents:

• A bridge too far?
• Brian O'Keefe: 'Father of FANS' retires
• Department of Transport - incidents at sea
• Tadio navaid infrastructure under review
• Through The Gap
• TAAATS delivers successful controller pilot data link
• Cairns TCU leads the way to '98 commissioning
• Book Review: Gatty - Prince of Navigators
• Maersk trials new navigational system
• GPS installation (in aircraft)
• Ship management: equality crumbles
• Nowhere to run

Contents:

• Stena HSS 1500 - stable and comfortable, even at 40 knots
• Obituary: Captain John Francis Dodwell
• Chronology of Southern Ocean search and survivor supply tasks 26-27 December 1996 and 6-9 January 1997
• Ashtech adds three new sensors to product line
• What is Endeavour Navigator?
• The Australian Regional GPS Tracking Network
• The waste of space
• Rhumb lines
• Collision risks with high speed vessels

Contents:

• White House commission on aviation safety and security
• International straits and sealanes
• Raster chart display systems
• Department of Transport - incidents at sea
• When navigation goes wrong - the nature of accidents
• An interview with Dava Sobel: author of the book that has put longitude in fashion
• Deaths in the industry
• Obituary: Harold Chertman, DSC MBE, 1917-1997
• GPS non-precision training approaches published
• Local Area Augmentation System
• Unfettered union - P&O and Nedlloyd's secret affair
• PARM will assist controllers to maintain Sydney Airport capacity
• GPS needs common survey base
• The Life of Brian
• Aeronautical surveys to support GPS navigation

Contents:

• GLONASS - partner to GPS
• Apocalypse postponed
• The completion of the Initial Admiralty Chart Coverage of Australia and Rear Admiral Phillip P. King, FRS FLS
• ECS and ECDIS - the continuing debate
• What is ... a raster chart / a vector chart?
• Book review: Rediscovering Australia
• NTSB blames pilots, officers for Alaska cruise ship grounding
• Automatic dependent surveillance - the future for air traffic control
• Developments in the realization of a Pan-European digital street map for ITS applications in Europe

Contents:

• The Future Air Navigation System is here
• Selection of GNSS solutions for Australia
• A rock by any other name is still a rock, except when it's The Rock
• ICAO plans worldwide conference on CNS/ATM
• The Sanko Steamship Co. Ltd. and Grandslam Enterprise Corp. vs Sumitomo Australia Ltd.
• GPS and GLONASS - even better accuracy
• Department of Transport - incidents at sea
• Tides - Tidal Datum, Chart Datum and ECDIS
• VTS96: a report
• A saviour at sea
• IMO news
• Farewell and bon voyage

Contents:

• GPS, electronic charts and you
• Dutch trial for electronic charts
• Australian Maritime College provides courses to meet industry needs
• GPS for the average maritime user: an update of where it's at, and where it's going
• GNSS augmentation analysis contract signed
• First INMARSAT-3 launch paves the way for Aero-I
• Barrier Reef Pilots - the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service
• Massive "Maersk" secret is revealed
• South Pacific airspace management moves quickly towards CNS
• Trimble and PA-31 RMT trial GPS approaches
• The Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS) displays use "windows"
• Book review: Via Torres Strait
• Book review: Leadline to Laser
• What the President said (or didn't say)
• GLONASS reviewed
• The Australian Maritime College appoints Principal
• HGE meeting

Contents:

• On course with satellite navigation - the Wide Area Augmentation System
• "Fostering confidence in navigation technology", Sydney, 27 February 1996 AMSA Seminar
• Integrity and human factors issues with GPS use
• A trial of an electronic charting system in the Great Barrier Reef
• Bridge resource management
• Human factors study reveals GPS users prepared to forgive minor faults in favour of accuracy and reliability
• Compromise or cowardice?
• Seen and be seen

Contents:

• Grounding prompts safety alert
• Jumbo ships vessel
• Captain Neville Grady AM FAIN
• B747-400 FANS upgrade approved
• Deeper Suez Canal brings benefits
• Newcomer bets millions that 3-seater trainers are the future
• Presidential address 1995: a recent flight from Sydney to Christchurch - some navigational aspects
• INMARSAT launches the world's first global carphone
• Differential GPS around the Australian coastline
• Navigation for the masses
• The progress of the hatchcoverless containership since "Bell Pioneer"
• Department of Transport - incidents at sea

Contents:

• Address to the Australian Institute of Navigation by Rear Admiral O.J. Hughes
• The guardian of GPS
• London to Paris in two hours and thirty minutes - as reported 76 years ago
• Is there a vexillologist in the house?
• Department of Transport - incidents at sea
• What's out there? Things that go bump in the night
• Book review: Charting the South Seas
• Electronic charts open St. Lawrence
• From Einstein' space and time to landing safely on a dime
• GPS declared fully operational
• The NAPA/NRC GPS report
• Coral Sea coal complex
• Obituary: Arthur John Moline
• Electronic aids
• Safe passage
• AIN Award of Merit - 1995 citation

Contents:

• GPS accuracy, reliability and integrity
• GPS seminar
• Marine navigation: punching up the GPS is not enough
• The introduction of WGS84 - a problem for the airline industry perhaps?
• US rub for radionavaids
• Confusing policy
• Book review: GPS Theory and Practice
• Letter to the editor
• Green and clean
• Mobile telephone for ship to shore communications
• The father of FANS
• Seeing shock waves on the wing of a Cessna
• Space
• "Worrying Trends" in the search for identification
• Haxelton Airways

Contents:

• Human element as a factor in maritime accidents
• The implementation of navigation services for civil aviation in the Pacific Region
• What price the Exxon damages award? - punitive madness
• Differential GPS service for the Torres Strait and Far North Queensland
• Pilots did it tough
• "The Cap'n" - a computerised navigation system
• INMARSAT shares out navigation services
• Brazil speeds up use of GPS
• Enhancing your chances
• Good news and bad
• Shiela Patrick Cohen (1917-1994)
• Routefinding reservations
• Chart team-up
• Tiniest GPS of all

Contents:

• The Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial Lecture 1994
• North Atlantic separation standards to be reduced in early 1997
• Quality assurance in the training of ship's officers
• Quick payoff in Fiji GPS trial
• 1994 Federal Radionavigation Plan
• The practice and teaching of navigation in full flight simulators
• USA and Europe look ahead to INMARSAT-3
• Confusing messages
• Crossing vessels provide most collision scares
• AEEC studies multi-source aid

Contents:

• The Atlantic crossing and the Panama Canal
• INMARSAT briefs CAAs
• Booze on board
• Planning for the Future Air Navigation System
• GPS / DGPS
• Department of Transport - incidents at sea
• GPS cleared for US civil use

Contents:

• From South Sea to Pacific Ocean
• In navigation, first principles remain important
• Shiphull stresses to be monitored
• Implementation of Differential GPS in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea
• ECDIS - who's dealing with data?
• Refuge problem with burned VLCC
• Greed, oily greed
• When communications can become a curse
• Charges levelled against Bosphorus collision master
• Sydney Maritime Museum
• Consumers demand ... GPS

Contents:

• Oceanic separation standards and required navigation performance (RNP)
• GPS is operational
• Integrated bridge systems - integration for all
• "Braer" captain accused of dereliction of duty
• Letter to the editor
• Piracy - Malacca/Singapore Straits
• Canadian firm buys rotor specialist
• Seminar on safer navigation by electronic chart systems
• Australian coastal Ro/Ro planned
• Morse casualty
• EU cash for bulker safety research
• Hunters and herders - Chukchi and Siberian Eskimo navigation across snow and frozen sea
• Looking back
• Tighter rules on Turkish Straits traffic
• Reviews - Officer of the Watch computer program
• The doomsday scenario

Contents:

• The GPS satellite constellation
• Opening up GPS
• Tankers - Ships of Shame or the lifeline of oil supply?
• The collision between the yacht "Libra" and MV "Sanko Heron"
• Australia threatens to go alone on safety
• New satellite marine navigation system
• Casualty figures improve
• Report of the investigation into the grounding of passenger vessel "Queen Elizabeth 2"
• Is GPS accuracy and reliability overrated?
• Civil satellite navigation office to open
• Complaints at VHF abuse grow
• Aircraft accident reports
• New in brief

Contents:

• The evolution of the biggest man-made moving objects
• GPS in light aircraft. Problems of an unapproved system
• Smart roads
• Pending GPS approach certification
• FAA authorises GPS approaches
• Three new GPS receivers shown at Paris Air Show
• Time running out for Europe's shipping?
• Geodetic information in support of positioning and navigation
• Working with the Global Marine Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) into the 21st century
• Near collision at Sydney Airport
• Satellite positioning and the European DRIVE Programme
• The new era of satellite navigation

Contents:

• MV "Europa" repairs in Singapore and Bremerhaven
• Bridge resource management
• UK routeing code put before IMO
• Tanker disaster on Shetland Isles. Could it happen here?
• Marine navigation in the 21st century: a shift to precision navigation
• City streets, airports, and a station roundup
• International air navigation system functional requirements
• The advent of ECDIS
• Chart manoeuvres