Australian Pilots Warned about Autumn

The Australian Helicopter Industry Association (AHIA) is warning pilots about the dangers of shortening days in autumn. During this period, the cattle mustering industry gets requests for flights at night, the AHIA said, and numerous mustering pilots have died trying their luck in the dark. “It is easy to miscalculate the available daylight and yield to the temptation to fly back to base after dark,” the association pointed out.