Hi, I’m Paul Phelan, editor for aviationadvertiser.com.au

While the print media writing I’ve been doing for the past twenty-plus years has been challenging, interesting, rewarding and sometimes quite exciting, I’ve long been convinced that to get real-time news and information to an interest-specific readership, we need to think outside the square (or the A4 rectangle.)

I’ve observed that that’s what readers want; it’s what advertisers want; it’s what job-seekers want; it saves a walk to the newsagent’s, and it saves a lot of trees as well!

Aviationadvertiser.com.au is dedicated to bringing you same-day news , providing accurate and informative feature material and comment, to answering frequently-asked questions or those you can’t find an answer to elsewhere, and to identifying and filling information gaps.

As one example, if you’re interested in becoming a pilot and don’t know where to start, it’ll be our role to provide enough information to help you decide what qualifications to seek and how to identify a suitable flying school, and to understand the entire process, the choices you need to make, the various recreational or professional flying goals you can set for yourself, and the rewards.

If you think you’d like to own and fly an aeroplane or a helicopter, we’ll be an encyclopedia of information to help in your planning and decision-making. This will include an accurate database providing all the information you need to match an aircraft to your particular flying tasks

If you’re already in the industry, you’ll appreciate our real-time advertising capability whether you want to promote your aviation services, seek and find a service you need, or search for qualified staff.

And let’s not forget the customer because most airline and charter passengers take an intelligent interest in aviation too. So we’ll also be updating you on issues that may affect your decisions on who to fly with along with any hints for the infrequent traveler.

At the end of every article we publish there’s a opportunity to comment on its content, and as you’ll see some of these articles have already drawn quite a bit of dialogue. If you want to draw on our knowledge base privately, or to suggest a topic we should be writing about, just send me an email. Your enquiry will be held confidential, and if we don’t know the answer we’ll tell you where to look.

We’ll always be relying on our readers for feedback on what we should be covering, suggestions as to how we could cover it better, and where we can we’ll act on those suggestions immediately.

Our most recent articles will be at the top of each topic list, they’ll stay on the site as long as they’re attracting interest, and they’ll go into archives from which you can recover and read them.

And that’s all starting right now.

Welcome aboard!

Paul Phelan, Editor.