Amanda Towner
Amanda Towner writes news articles for the Halldale Group’s website as well as CAT and MST Magazines. She studied English and Creative Writing at Stetson University, where she became a Sullivan Scholar for her work. Her writing covers several topics including journalism and storytelling, and is featured in several publications.
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Egyptian armed forces have arrived in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to participate in the activities of the Egyptian-Jordanian joint training, Aqaba-4. The training will continue until the 21st of December with the participation of land and naval forces, air defense forces, special forces and military engineers of both countries... 13 December 2018
In an initiative designed to align APS MCC training with the latest ICAO developments in Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA), VA Airline Training is strengthening its AirlineReady APS MCC course with Competency Assurance in January 2019. Competency Assurance provides a guarantee that any VA trainee who has not fully reached... 13 December 2018
To better represent the core activities of the business today, Virtual Aviation is becoming VA Airline Training. The revised branding incorporates a new ‘Careers Take Flight’ strap-line to represent the company’s focus on enabling pilot career opportunities for its customers. The use of magenta as an accent colour in the... 13 December 2018
Seeing Machines Limited has partnered with L3 Commercial Aviation to deliver integrated eye tracking capabilities into their Full Flight Simulator (FFS). The first device with this functionality will be delivered to an Australian airline in 2019. The companies developed a solution to provide and leverage the eye tracking capability and... 12 December 2018
Riptide Software has been selected as the prime contractor for the U.S. Army One Semi-Automated Force (OneSAF) computer-generated forces simulation system. Teammates for this contract include Cole Engineering, Assured Information Technologies, Infinitas and Phoenix Logistics. The hybrid contract was awarded at $103-million over six years. The OneSAF simulation product line... 11 December 2018
ACS Aviation Managing Director, Graeme Frater with the ACS Aviation Sales Director, Louise Ewart at the awards ceremony with the award. ACS Aviation won the Beyond Scotland Business Star Award in the Perthshire Chamber of Commerce’s 2018 Business Star Awards for attracting overseas business to Perthshire, Scotland. The judges... 11 December 2018
infoWERK announced the closure of an agreement with Aruba Airlines for the implementation of its eLearning program, FOO training. The training is delivered through a customized learning portal that includes both initial and recurrent training and aims to offer high quality state-of-the-art online training as well as operational flexibility and... 11 December 2018
infoWERK will release its new Route Competence Training eLearning course in early 2019. Due to the increasing requests received from infoWERK’s clients, particularly from corporate jet operators outlining the need and the possible benefits of having an eLearning course for route competency, infoWERK decided on a cooperative development together with... 11 December 2018
Indra will equip the second series of K130 corvette class ships of the German Navy with its latest generation Rigel electronic defense system, which will enhance the capacity of these vessels in complex environments. The company signed a contract with the naval systems company Atlas Elektronik and will deliver five... 11 December 2018
Three years after the first prototype for the UH-60 Black Hawk aircrew trainer (BAT) was set up and implemented as a training aid at Fort Bliss, Texas, that technology has been enhanced. A team from System Simulation, Software and Integration Directorate, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Aviation &... 10 December 2018
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