December 1
The air controllers union - Civil Air - continue to harass politicians and news media over their perceived safety issues with private pilots and the new airspace procedures
 
Most of the question time in Federal Parliament to-day was taken up explaining the safety aspects of the new system and replying to backbenchers questions taken straight out of local newspapers
 
And the newspaper reports, the Courier-Mail in particular, were poorly researched in the area of private VFR flight requirements and all articles researched by this News Desk appeared to be instigated by the air controllers union or Federation of Air Pilots

December 1
Charles Lindbergh - made famous for his solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927 - had an 'interesting' time fathering children in his 'retirement' - born in 1902 he departed the planet in 1974
 
It has been announced recently that Lindbergh had a defacto 'wife' in Germany during the 50's and 60's and fathered an additional 3 children over and above the 6 he already had with his official wife Anne Morrow whom he married in 1929
 
Lindbergh had his first child - a boy Charles Agustus III - kidnapped and murdered in 1932

December 4
Ted Lang - president of the air traffic controllers union - claimed on TV that an incident which occurred near Melbourne yesterday where one aircraft out of three involved - had the TCAS go off was as a result of the new NAS system and not the fault of the air traffic controller's instructions
 
The Civil Air president "has previously claimed there were near misses in Canberra and Tamworth ...on both occasions he was utterly incorrect and he's yet to apologise for his blatant scaremongering"
 
Click on the links below to read about TCAS alerts prior to the airspace implementation