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Founding MAs: BY CAPTAIN MARCUS DIAMOND

Safety & Technical Officer

AusALPA

AUSTRALIAN AIR LINE PILOTS’ ASSOCIATION

Australian pilots have always had a very strong and
active role in IFALPA. Captain Len Moray was the

first to represent Australia at the IFALPA inaugural
meeting in London in 1948.

The original Australian Member Association was
the Australian Air Pilots Association (AAPA) which
later became known as the Australian Federation
of Air Pilots (AFAP). As the rules of IFALPA allow
for recognition of only one Member Association
in any one country, AusALPA was formed on 25
March 1997 in conjunction with the Australian
and International Pilots’ Association (AIPA) as an
umbrella organisation to allow all Australian pi-
lots to have representation at IFALPA. AusALPA
is a partnership between the two largest pilot as-
sociations in Australia, the AFAP and AIPA.

While Captain Moray was present at the first
meeting, over the years AusALPA and IFALPA
have shared many members who worked on im-
proving the working conditions and safety within
the aviation industry both internationally and
within Australia. One of these pilots with a par-
ticularly impressive career is Captain Ron Stacey.

Captain Stacey first joined the AFAP in 1960 and
quickly increased his involvement in the Federa-
tion’s activities, joining the safety and technical
committee in 1973 and working on topics such A copy of the original certificate of IFALPA membership is proudly displayed Over the years Australia has hosted a number of IFALPA Conferences including
in the Melbourne head office of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. Sydney in 1952, Gold Coast in 1980, and Sydney again in 2004.
as Aircraft Design and Operation (ADO), Aero-
drome and Ground Aids (AGA). Other subjects
that were topical during this period were Pans-
Ops -Annex 14., obstacle clearance, OLS, aero-
dromes, continuing airworthiness, windshear.