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NEWSLETTER Vol.10, No.38: February 2004

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  • The history of air navigation: a tme line
  • Safety: pilot fatigue comes under exhaustive examination
  • Automated position reporting a step closer
  • New distress beacon promotion
  • ULCC takes Gulf load to Rotterdam via Suez
  • Australia's port state control report for 2002
  • Books: Cockatoo Island Dockyard: A Guide to the Records
  • A pinch of salt to change El Nino
  • Centenary soon for world's first enclosed lifeboat
  • It's always the last place you look
  • Historical context - an international consensus emerges
  • Waverider buoy goes with the flow
  • Efthimios Mitropoulos - IMO's new Secretary-General elect
  • Review of performance standards for radar equipment
  • Correspondence: When is a ship that is not making way required to signal that it is moving through the water?
  • CRP Azipod debuts in Japanese ferries
  • The technology affecting modern bridge systems
  • Books: Farther Than Any Man - The Rise & Fall of Captain James Cook
  • China's first maritime rescue heliport station starts trials
  • MARS accident reporting scheme
  • The European Galileo Program
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.10, No.37: October 2003

Contents:

  • Navigation training at FOST
  • New Reef Route - droggies chart shorter safer passage for shipping
  • Tricolor salvage
  • Shipmasters raise storm of protest against unfair treatment
  • A day in the life of the Dover Strait
  • European response to Prestige disaster causing concern in U.S.
  • How to explain Tricolor?
  • Future competence of seafarers
  • Australian sealevels rise
  • Blame culture obscures accident investigation
  • The human factor in accident analysis - the Kronprins Harald case
  • Marine engineering award
  • The devil is in the detail - a seafarer looks at AIS
  • Helm order blamed for Portsmouth collision
  • Warning against criminal charges
  • British Vigilance collides with Stena King
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.10, No.36: July 2003

Contents:

  • Independent investigation into the grounding of the Liberian registered container ship ANL Excellence
  • AIS market becoming more competitive
  • The maritime security
  • Black boxes often hold the key
  • Piper Warrier
  • Russian plans to restore GLONASS
  • Tragic lessons - Alaska Airlines Flight 261
  • EU and China sign Maritime Agreement
  • Forty years of routeing at sea
  • Master Navigators - the desert ant
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.10, No.35: May 2003

Contents:

  • Professional Mariner - Joseph Conrad, no ordinary mariner: author, sailor, mate and master
  • Attack of the drones
  • The Australian Global Positioning Systems Society Inc.
  • Don't talk to the bus driver - meet the passenger from hell
  • Mr. Hyde and the Wright brothers flight
  • The release of Captain Mangouras - Master of M/V Prestige
  • CASA convenes conference to discuss flight regulations
  • Pocket PC navigation
  • Vale JLB Cowan OAM FAIN
  • Vale Commander Mark Hudson RAN (retd)
  • Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race - life of Captain Stan Darling commemorated
  • Star Dust Falling: The story of the plane that vanished
  • FAA to establish new navigation concept within a year
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.10, No.35: January 2003

Contents:

  • One hundred years of charting the ocean floor
  • ESA launches new weather satellite
  • Whose plane is it anyway? What went wrong?
  • Perpetual problems on approach: too high or too low?
  • IMPA blasts Reef pilotage
  • Navigating Cook's Endeavour
  • The Endeavour returns
  • How far can GPS go?
  • Tree's a crowd - What went wrong?
  • New marine safety device
  • Operational sea training - Royal Navy style
  • Boeing unveils new cockpit technology
  • National politics in the sky
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.9, No.34: October 2002

Contents:

  • SOLAS: a new chapter
  • High praise for Garuda Flight 421
  • Law: lack of risk assessment contributed to Oz accident
  • Open doors before impact
  • The human factor in accident analysis - the Kronprins Harald case
  • Race for historic Wright flight
  • What went wrong - I'll take the low road?
  • Analysis - what would you do?
  • Editorial - another reason for a single international ship register
  • Dizzy spell
  • The European Galileo Programme: near death, in trouble or healthy and on-track?
  • Galileo finally takes off
  • The Pelican Chevron
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.9, No.33: July 2002

Contents:

  • Hamburg Express: a giant at sea
  • Millennium project for the NCI
  • Seeing clearly
  • Channel alert
  • Open water through the pole - shipping across the top of the world
  • US-Canadian rivalry revived
  • Independent investigation into the sinking of the Australian flag training vessel Wyuna in the Tamar River, Rasmania on 19 October 2000
  • The Honourable Company of Master Mariners and the Merchant Navy
  • Inland port planned for Sydney
  • QANTAS and the Indian Ocean (Part II)
  • The first magnetic chart - Edmund Halley's work in Geophysics and Navigation
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.9, No.32: April 2002

Contents:

  • QANTAS and the Indian Ocean
  • ECDIS - Approach for paperless navigation
  • Independent investigation into the collision between the bulk cargo vessel Silver Bin and the fishing vessel Chinderah Star
  • Record balloon attempt
  • Do we still need DGPS?
  • Primar solves chart headache
  • Airship renaissance
  • And the winner is ...
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.9, No.31: January 2002

Contents:

  • Marine Safety Investigation Report 158 -- Independent investigation into grounding of tanker Al Deerah
  • Tiger turns 70
  • The year of Land Navigation -- The way ahead
  • The exactitude of WAAS
  • Deadstick in an Airbus 330
  • ENC for Suez
  • Electronic Chart Systems -- A bonus or a curse?
  • Piracy and armed robbery -- attacked, robbed, injured and killed
  • Australian Merchant Navy Awards Council -- Centenary of Federation Royal Australian Navy honoured
  • In a spin -- A charter pilot relives the horror flight terror that almost cost him his life
  • High-flying Helios
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.8, No.30: October 2001

Contents:

  • The Australian Shiphandling Centre, Port Ash
  • Robot Wars
  • Bean sprouts wings
  • Matthew Flinders: pathway to fame
  • Down to the wire -- electrical wires in older aircraft require special care
  • Crossed wires -- what do pilots and controllers know about each other's jobs?
  • The prop stops -- why maintenance is best left to the experts
  • AIS/GPS combination launched
  • EU 'steamroller' flattens ports -- De Palacio's directive shatters opposition front
  • AIS can save money and boost safety
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.8, No.29: July 2001

Contents:

  • Incidents at sea -- investigation into the grounding of Bunga Teratai Satu on the GBR
  • Automatic Identification System (AIS) -- an emerging maritime technology
  • Silk road in the sky -- new technology & years of negotiation have resulted in a new route to Europe
  • Australia puts the block on -- foot & mouth disease
  • A salute to Stan Darling
  • Gateway to the stars
  • Distinguished navigator honoured
  • Sheila the Sailor
  • Concorde: Out of the eclipse
  • Aussies bid to halt extinction
  • The next wave
  • IMO studies air safety lead
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.8, No.28: April 2001

Contents:

  • Black boxes for ships -- VDRs will improve ship safety but what about float-free?
  • WIGs will lift off -- commercial reality nears for extreme machines
  • Wake-up calls ignored -- Greece's ferry nightmare comes true
  • Poor bridge procedures cost $500M
  • A revolution stumbled -- Europe has become a leader in the new regional jet revolution but is being bogged down by its own antiquated air traffic management system
  • "Dreadful boat" hits the rocks, killing 63
  • Night and day -- watchkeeping for the BT Global Challenge Race
  • What went wrong - waterwise
  • Aussie aircraft cleared for take-off
  • Teenage apprentices may be one solution to pilot shortfall
  • Australian shipping at sea
  • Onward christian sailors
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.8, No.27: January 2001

Contents:

  • Coming to grief on the reef
  • Master of the Fleet -- The RAN navigator in the new millennium
  • Reliability under fire
  • What went wrong? More fuel me (a 30 second check could save your life)
  • The makers of the Blue Back Charts
  • 'Holy Smoke' Swayze
  • From design to delivery of the Beltana and Bullara
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.7, No.26: October 2000

Contents:

  • Water: the new wet bulk
  • Tanker attracts high price
  • The man who fell to earth
  • Potential gold-mine?
  • Australia ignores seafarers' plea
  • Dutch to tackle pilots' pensions
  • Beached -- a VFR pilot runs into a wall of cloud on a flight across Bass Strait
  • Collusion, conspiracy or cover-up?
  • From Morse to AIS
  • A3XX -- giant of the skies
  • Farewell to Decca
  • Canberra comment -- single voyage permits, taxation and Australia's shipping future
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.7, No.25: July 2000

Contents:

  • What makes GPS tick?
  • Statement by the President of the United States regarding the US's decision to stop downgrading GPS accuracy
  • US action makes current GPS navigation devices more accurate - the removal of 'Selective Availability' promises enormous benefits to users
  • Clear to land - or is it?
  • Kill or be killed - eye for an eye might not deter pirates
  • Fast ships - how slim can they go?
  • Incidents at sea - investigation into release of oil by the Laura D'Amato in Sydney Harbour, 3 August 1999
  • From bedroom to boardroom
  • Pilot - take charge!
  • Maritime silk road gets navigational boost
  • The language barrier
  • Day of reckoning for RCCL
  • Arco christens first millennium tanker
  • Too much Disney?
  • Rhumb lines
  • The search for Amelia Earhart's plane
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.7, No.24: April 2000

Contents:

  • HMAS Jervis Bay ... world first for military operations
  • 2020 Vision ... robotics at sea
  • Callous conduct ... pirates are not the only villians of the seas
  • Hijacked seafarers live to tell their tale ... do pirates fear the consequences of their violence?
  • Interactive chart catalogue on AHO website
  • What went wrong? ... "Sit down and shut up!"
  • What went wrong? ... In the Soup, a pilot puts commerce before safety
  • Space-age bridge design of the future
  • Remote pilotage
  • Telegraph to fibre optics
  • ECDIS on the move again
  • WAAS passes final milestone
  • Australia tackles flood of boatpeople ... situation calls for unprecedented maritime measures
 
 
NEWSLETTER Vol.7, No.22: January 2000

Contents:

  • Rise above the obstacles ... high-speed conept takes to the air
  • Rhumb lines ... personal views by Sinbad
  • Heat, jungle and tigers, all in a day's work ... regional assistance in major investigation
  • In praise of professionalism ... master saves lives, not property
  • Seafarers take on the pirates ... tackling firepower with firehoses on the front line
  • Dangerous illusions ... low, slow and short: two commercial pilots come within seconds of losing their lives
  • The new Magellan MAP410
  • Incidents at Sea: the grounding of the New Reach on Heath Reef, Great Barrier Reef, on 17 May 1999
  • London to Sydney Air Race 2001
  • Satellite landings ... one step closer
  • Black seas, red faces ... can Australia cope with a crisis?

   
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