The total number of Danish flight schools using the FlightLogger platform has increased to ten as Zealand Flight Academy from Roskilde completed their onboarding.
With the increasing digitisation of the battlefield and greater automation, the crew of armoured fighting vehicles must be trained in ever more complex scenarios. MS&T Guest Writer Dr. Trevor Dobbins explores the role of simulation and the move from analogue to digital.
In the second of three articles on UK Armed Forces Officer Training, MS&T’s Dim Jones visited the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, located in the town of Camberley on the Berkshire-Surrey border some thirty miles south-west of London.
After covering Gladiator in Issue 3/2020, the Royal Air Force’s synthetic training initiative, MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones explores the Royal Navy’s equivalent programme.
MS&T readers will be aware of the plans for the future of synthetic training in the Royal Air Force under the Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) (DOTC(A)), also known as Gladiator. Similarly, the Royal Navy is looking to transform the way it trains its people and also the way in which it mans and deploys its forces. The Defence Operational Training Capability (Maritime) (DOTC(M)) is key to this transformation. I visited the home of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth to learn more from the RN and industry about plans for the maritime equivalent.
ALSIM has launched the convertible simulator AL40/42. It combines two popular Diamond aircraft, DA40 and DA42, in one device, bringing flexibility to flight schools.
The Royal Australian Air Force continues to maintain a presence at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, that has enabled them to continue joint training on the F-35A Lightning II, with the US Air Force.
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS has some modest suggestions for improving the civil aviation industry’s path to recovery.
While politicians fiddle, airlines are burning through cash. US$51 billion in Q2. Another $77B expected in the second half of the year. A further $5-6 billion per month through the end of 2021, according to IATA’s current forecast.
Some governments have continued to prop up their nation’s airlines, such as Japan and Australia, but others have become preoccupied with elections and second-surge pandemic restrictions, ignoring pleas from aviation leaders while tens of thousands of talented, experienced airline employees are furloughed or released.
Under the radar, thousands more jobs are being shed throughout the airline supplier community – aircraft manufacturers and component builders, MROs to an extent, catering companies, ground transport, airport retailers, and aviation training organisations.