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.

After Helmand: Air-Land Integration

September 7, 2021

Dim Jones

Dim Jones reports on the inaugural Omega Air-Land Integration Conference.

Protector – Reaper on Steroids

August 31, 2021

Dim Jones

The UK RPAS capability is set to take an exponential step with the imminent introduction of Reaper’s successor system, Protector.

Mil Flight Training Debates Synthetic-Live Balance

August 24, 2021

Dim Jones

The three-day 2021 IQPC Military Flight Training Conference provided a comprehensive review of the airscape, including motivating Gen Z and transitioning to 6^th Gen fighters. Dim Jones offers his take on the presentations and virtual format.

Grooming QEAF Typhoon Pilots

May 11, 2021

Dim Jones

A joint RAF/Qatari Hawk training squadron will stand up at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire in September.

Aberporth Training Swing-Role Missions

March 30, 2021

Dim Jones

The RAF and UK defence company QinetiQ recently conducted the first live weaponry ‘swing-role’ mission on the range at MoD Aberporth. MS&T’s Dim Jones takes a more detailed look at this significant milestone.

F-35 Simulation and Training Make Important Advances

December 9, 2020

Marty Kauchak and Dim Jones

Dim Jones, MS&T Europe Editor and Marty Kauchak, Halldale Media Group Editor attended the 1 December Lockheed Martin F-35 Training Update Media Roundtable and filed this report.

“The Future We Imagined in the Past is Happening Today”

December 1, 2020

Marty Kauchak, Andy Fawkes, Rick Adams, and Dim Jones

Day 1 (30 November) 2020 vIITSEC highlights. Compiled from reports filed from the conference exhibition floor and briefing rooms by Halldale staff members: Andy Fawkes, MS&T Editor; Rick Adams, CAT Editor, Dim Jones, MS&T Europe Correspondent; and Marty Kauchak, Halldale Media Group Editor.

Simulation and Training Anywhere

December 1, 2020

Dim Jones, Andy Fawkes, and Marty Kauchak

This 25 November, Andy Fawkes, MS&T Editor, Dim Jones, MS&T Magazine Europe Editor and Marty Kauchak, Halldale Media Group Editor, completed a wide-ranging interview with Sébastien Lozé, Industry Manager, Simulations at Epic Games. The participants spoke about the growing Epic Games’ S&T ecosystem, the latest technological developments, and S&T acquisition.

British Army Officer Training at Sandhurst

November 1, 2020

Dim Jones

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.

Current and Future Operational Training in the Royal Navy

November 1, 2020

Dim Jones

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.

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A New WATS For A New Age

The World Aviation Training Summit, the largest and most comprehensive safety training event of 2022, will feature special bonus sessions dedicated to Emerging Technologies.

Community Recovery Pays Off... Now For 2022

Halldale President and CEO Andy Smith picks the positives on another year the simulation training community will be happy to forget and looks forward to 2022 and some growth for the industry.

MS&T Awards Winners Finally Get Their Prize

The long-awaited return to live conferences has allowed us to finally present our deserved 2020 Military Simulation and Training Magazine Award winners with their prizes.