July-August 2000 - Vol 4 No 4
Cover story
On the edge - Take our stress test to find out if you are affected. Details of how to cope with cockpit stress and stress caused by life events.
Further reading:
Mind tools - how to master stress - A comprehensive site on understanding and managing stress.
How to survive unbearable stress - A light hearted and easy to read treatment of the mechanisms behind stress; and ways of dealing with over-stress.
What went wrong?
Mid-air collision - A private pilot recalls a sickening impact 1,000ft above Hoxton Park.
An accident waiting to happen - How a dream of becoming a chief pilot became a nightmare.
A wall of cloud - A VFR pilot finds himself surrounded by cloud.
Flying operations
The wrong approach - The findings of the investigation into the crash of Korean Air Flight 801.
Further reading:
National Transport Safety Board's complete report, plus animation of Flight 801.
Flying rings around Sydney - Your guide to flying during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Airworthiness
True to type - How to get an aircraft certified to Australian safety standards.
ATSB supplement
Regulars
Letters - Flack
and flattery.
News - Developments in aviation safety.
ADs & AACs - List of airworthiness
directives and advisory circulars.
Maintenance alerts - Information for
aircraft engineers.
Safety check - Test your knowledge.
Short final - Tails you win.