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Dim Jones

Dim Jones

Dim Jones, our MS&T Magazine Europe Editor, is a former RAF Group Captain with 44 years’ experience in defence aviation, having flown more than 7,700 hours in a wide variety of aircraft, the vast majority fast- jet. Dim served as an Instructor Pilot and Flight Examiner with the USAF, and as a Qualified Tactics Instructor, Squadron Commander, Station Commander and Deputy Inspector of Flight Safety. Dim spent the last six years as a Qualified Pilot Nav Instructor on the Hawk.
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DSET 2023

DSET: Strength to Strength

June 26, 2023
Dim Jones and Andy Fawkes

The 8th iteration of the Defence Simulation Education & Training (DSET) conference and exhibition took place at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol UK between 5-8 June. Representing the event’s Media Partner, Halldale / MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones attended. 


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An Interview With Red 6 CEO Daniel Robinson

May 29, 2023
Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones

MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones had the opportunity to chat with Daniel Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO of augmented-reality company Red 6, a former RAF Tornado F3 pilot and the first non-US pilot to fly the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor operationally.


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DSET Set for Banner Event in Bristol

May 17, 2023
Dim Jones

The 8th iteration of the Defence Simulation, Education and Training (DSET) conference and exhibition will take place 5-8 June 2023, live at the Ashton Gate stadium in Bristol and also online. MS&T Magazine is the Lead Media Sponsor. Dim Jones previews the event.


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Junior Soldiers have opportunities to listen to motivational speakers – in this case, author and former SAS soldier Andy McNab

The UK Army’s Apprenticeship Scheme: AFC Harrogate

May 3, 2023
Dim Jones

Young people who have chosen to join the Army straight from school receive their initial training at the British Army Foundation College, some 3 miles west of the spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. MS&T’s Dim Jones visited to observe what goes on there.   


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The recently graduated Hawk T2 course comprised only 4 pilots

RAF Pilot Pipeline Not Keeping Pace

April 5, 2023
Dim Jones

The parlous state of the UK’s military pilot training system has been much in the news of late. Although the RAF and the MoD have been at pains to downplay any suggestion of a crisis, there is little doubt that the situation is serious, and that the problems are both chronic and acute.  


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The Grob 120TP Prefect T1 is the UK MFTS Elementary Flying Training platform, led by Affinity Flying Training Services, a JV between Elbit and KBR.

Ascent Approaching 1000 MFTS Trainee Grads

April 5, 2023
Dim Jones

Outsourcing of aircrew training within the UK Armed Forces has been a long-running saga. The concept of what eventually became the Military Flight Training System (MFTS) was widely discussed in the MoD during the 1990s, but it was not until 2008 that the first contract was signed between the MoD and Ascent Flight Training. MS&T’s Dim Jones visited Ascent in their Bristol HQ to get their take on past achievements and future plans.


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Idea to Reality? Aeralis at Stage 3

November 15, 2022
Dim Jones
It is some 50 years since the UK aerospace industry produced a new training aircraft. All that may be about to change with the development of a new family of modular aircraft by a company called Aeralis.
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An AH64 Apache conducts dust landings while deployed to RAFO Musannah as part of Ex PINION OMAN 21

Omega: A Ukraine-Driven Urgency

November 2, 2022
Dim Jones
This year, MS&T's Dim Jones is happy to report, Covid constraints had been lifted, and the Omega conference attracted over 150 delegates from 14 nations.
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Cranwell RAF College Graduation Parade

Superna Petimus: ‘We Seek Higher Things’

August 30, 2022
Dim Jones
Some 56 years on, MS&T’s Martin ‘Dim’ Jones revisited RAF Cranwell, the scene of some of the earliest of his many crimes to find that the hallowed portals remain outwardly pretty much the same.
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IT2EC returns

IT2EC Reborn, Finally

June 14, 2022
Dim Jones and Andy Fawkes

The return to London’s ExCel Centre and lifting of Covid restrictions helped resurrect the long-delayed 31st iteration of IT2EC. MS&T’s Andy Fawkes and Dim Jones took in the conference and exhibition and came away with a range of reactions.


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