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Category: AHSA Meetings

Melbourne Meetings:

AHSA Inc. holds monthly meetings on the fourth Wednesday of the month, 7.30pm at the Air Force Association, 24 Camberwell Rd, Hawthorn East.

Some members meet casually for dinner from 6.00pm at the Tower Hotel.

Our monthly meetings are also webcast online via Zoom, for members who cannot attend in person.

Meeting details are sent to members each month.
Click on the heading below to view recordings of previous monthly meetings:

DerekB26/10/202228/11/2022

AHSA Melbourne Meeting October 2022 (Peter Hobbins: The RAAF’s early embrace of flight simulation)

Our October 2022 Melbourne meeting was another joint presentation with the RAAF History and Heritage Branch, and we thank them for this continuing collaboration....
DerekB28/09/202224/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting September 2022 (GPCAPT Grant Kelly: Historic Unrecovered War Casualties)

Our September 2022 Melbourne meeting was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...
DerekB24/08/202210/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting August 2022 (Richard de Crespigny AM: The QF32 Experience – Before, During & After)

Our August 2022 Melbourne meeting was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...
DerekB27/07/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 27 July 2022 (GPCAPT Macauley Cottrell: Forward Air Control Operations In Vietnam)

Our July 2022 Melbourne meeting, held in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at the RAAF...
DerekB25/05/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 25 May 2022 (WGCDR Philip Beanland: RAAF 100 Squadron)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 25 May 2022, in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at...
DerekB27/04/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 27 April 2022 (Leigh Edmonds: Norman Brearly and West Australian Airways)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 27 April 2022 was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to...
DerekB23/03/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 23 March 2022 (WGCDR Mathew Shelley: The RAAF Museum and the New Vision For the Museum’s Future)

Our March 2022 Melbourne meeting, held in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at the RAAF...
DerekB23/02/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 23 February 2022 (Michael Smith: Commemorative Flight From London to Darwin, 2019)

Our February 2022 Melbourne meeting, was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting rooms in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...
DerekB24/11/202108/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 24 November 2021 (Lance Halvorson: RAAF Strike Aircraft 1953-2010)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 24 November 2021, in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at...
DerekB28/04/202106/12/2021

AHSA Monthly Meeting 28 April 2021 (Roger McKay: Aerial Navigation)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 28 April 2021 was held in person and broadcast via Zoom. Squadron Leader Roger McKay gave a presentation covering...

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1993 Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain VH-WGI operated by Hibiscus Aviation Services crashed near Launceston airport, Launceston, Tasmania on 17 September 1993. The aircraft crashed at 19:43 hours EST while on a night landing approach to Launceston airport. The aircraft was being operated by one pilot and carried nine passengers. Six passengers received fatal injuries. The pilot and three passengers sustained serious injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged as a result of impact forces and fire. The aircraft was operating a 'cost sharing private flight' from Morabin Airport, Melbourne to Launceston with members of the Glendale Football Club. The accident occurred while the pilot was making a visual circling approach to land on runway 32 at Launceston. Some low cloud was present and the aircraft passed through patches of cloud on the approach. Late on a left base leg the aircraft entered a steep left bank. Shortly after, at a height of about 200 feet, the aircraft developed a rapid rate of descent. This descent culminated in collision with the ground. Significant factors in this occurrence included minimal endorsement training and pilot experience on type, inadequate operator supervision, and pilot decision making adversely influenced by the carriage of noisy, alcohol-affected passengers. Organisational factors included an absence of standards prescribed by the CAA for aircraft type endorsement. The ATSB investigation found indications of significant confusion over the interpretation of AIP DAP instructions on visual circling approaches, particularly at night. Sources: ATSB Occurrence number 199302851; aviation-safety.net website

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