Tesi, NordicNinja, and Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank are among Varjo's new investors contributing to its $54 million round of Series C funding.
What kind of remote ATC learning experience do you want to provide? Self-directed? Structured? Online? Instructor-led? Aimee Turner monitors ATC training developments.
The pandemic impact means that the worldwide shortage of air traffic controllers – in the near term at least – is no longer the industry hurdle it once was. The challenge now is keeping controllers current to ensure safe and continuous service and enabling them to continue their training in a safe environment. As many air navigation service providers (ANSP) turn to remote training approaches, tools are coming to the fore that provide a realistic imitation of the ATC environment from ab initio through to rating and conversion.
While the concept of remote interaction with students and distance learning have been around for some time, Greg Pile, managing director at UK-based ATC simulator specialist Micro Nav, points out that these delivery methodologies were often considered to be lacking. Attitudes are changing on the back of necessity, however.
AFWERX, a US Air Force program, has selected FlightSmart, FlightSafety International’s integrated pilot performance evaluation and training tool, to participate in the Accelerating Pilots to Combat-Ready Aviators Challenge 2020.
The requirements and procedures for operations in the North Atlantic High Level Airspace continually evolve, changing as new technology allows for further reduction in aircraft separation and improved communication and surveillance capabilities.
With the world now some months into the pandemic, MS&T’s Editor Andy Fawkes reports on developments in remote training and working during and beyond Covid-19.
“Remote Working”, “Working from Home”, “Teleworking”, once minority ways of working have in the space of weeks become commonplace and with some employees unlikely to return to offices anytime soon. In 2019 a UK ONS study reported that just over 5% of the total workforce worked mainly from home, and in June 2020 this had risen to 49%. Similar trends have taken place across the world because of Covid-19 and words such as “Zoom” have entered day to day language. Live events and exhibitions have moved wholesale online. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the workplace and remote work has become a new reality, making connectivity, speed, reliability, cybersecurity, and undisrupted access essential elements of organizations. Further, a whole generation of children, future recruits, and employees, are experiencing remote education and schooling over an extended period.
Following the successful re-launch of its STCW safety critical courses in June, Stream Marine Training has re-launched its specialist Marine and Technical portfolio of training programmes.
Building upon its success supplying software to meet physical security assessment and integrated C2 requirements across Government, Defense, Energy, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure and Commercial Sectors, ARES Security has added the Virtual Tabletop and Virtual Reality Training modules to the AVERT portfolio.
British technology company Improbable’s Defence business has secured a contract with the British Army to supply its synthetic environment platform as a pathfinder technology demonstrator project for the Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme.
Modest Tree has achieved Level 2 TISAX (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange) certification to support and enhance the acceleration of immersive training for the automotive industry.