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Key points:
Pilots should maintain knowledge and skills required to avoid unintentional operations in IMC;
If a VFR-rated pilot does find themselves in marginal weather, they should seek whatever assistance is available, including contacting air traffic services.
An incident that saw a student pilot and instructor in a Piper PA-28 encounter deteriorating weather and enter instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) while operating under visual flight rules (VFR) highlights the importance of thorough pre-flight planning, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation notes.
The student pilot (in the left seat) and instructor (in the right hand seat), with a second student pilot (seated in the rear) observing, were conducting a navigation training flight in the PA-28 from Melbourne’s Moorabbin Airport to Warrnambool in western Victoria and return on 25 February 2021, as part of the student’s integrated commercial pilot licence training.
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Plans for airport
Submissions closed on Monday 12 July for Moorabbin Airport’s draft Master Plan.
Among the objectives listed in the Master Plan are “growing flight training activity to 1,800 students per year, an increase of 450 students from 2020 levels and forecast as the safe maximum achievable within airspace capacity constraints of the airport”, “investing a further $300 million in aviation and non-aviation activities by 2029”, and “simplifying the airport’s planning framework by reducing the number of land use precincts from seven to five, and aligning associated zoning and planning controls for aviation and non-aviation areas”.
Kingston Council has come out in opposition to some of the draft Master Plan, stating that it “includes too much non-aviation development that imposes on neighbouring homes, could compromise safety, and undermines the site’s prime purpose as a centre for aviation.”