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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Coptersafety, a helicopter training service provider, will run a 2-day Maintenance Check Flight (MCF) course to help helicopter operators and maintenance service providers meet the new requirements and regulations for MCF operations that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will introduce in 2019. The first MCF course will take place... 19 October 2018
Kaplan Nursing, which partners with nursing schools to prepare students for licensing exams and careers in healthcare, launched an interactive virtual simulation program through i-Human Patients (IHP) to help train nurses in making clinical judgments. IHP is a high-performance, healthcare case-authoring and playback system that can simulate a nurse’s complete... 18 October 2018
Advanced Simulation Technology inc. (ASTi), under contract with L3 Technologies, provided its Voisus voice communication equipment for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Secure Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Advanced Training Environment (SLATE) project. SLATE technologies integrate live aircraft, pilots in simulators and computer-generated forces to increase the realism and... 18 October 2018
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, launched the first of its network of Certified Training Facilities (CTFs) to expand its global training offering. The first CTF is Helideal, a Bell Independent Representative in Le Cannet-des-Maures, France, which will provide initial and recurrent pilot-training under the umbrella of the Bell Training... 18 October 2018
Delta Air Lines, the Delta Air Lines Foundation and the Jacobson Family Foundation provided a $6.2-million grant to Auburn University (AU) in a partnership to develop the next generation of pilots. The grant will fund AU’s new Delta Air Lines Aviation Education Building that will open this fall, Radio Frequency... 18 October 2018
PULAU Corporation selected Bagira Systems to be part of Team PULAU (with PULAU Corp. as the prime contractor and its team of 15 subcontractors) to provide training and training services throughout the assimilation and operation stages of the Enterprise Training Services Contract (ETSC) from the U.S. Army's Contracting Command and... 17 October 2018
TAG Farnborough Airport awarded its TAG Flying Scholarship 2018 that provides training towards a Private Pilot’s License (PPL) to 17-year-old Réshé Harrison. The scholarship is part of the airport’s Aviation to Education program that informs and educates local schools and colleges about aviation. Sponsored by the Honourable Company of Air... 17 October 2018
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a developer of advanced military training and simulation software, won an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) extension from the U.S. Army to demonstrate technologies for a cloud-enabled, virtual world training capability to meet the requirements of the Army’s revolutionary Synthetic Training Environment (STE) initiative. The goal of... 16 October 2018
CAE expanded its business aviation-training footprint in North America with the installation of its first CAE-built Bombardier Challenger 604 full-flight simulator (FFS) at its CAE Dallas training center in Dallas, Texas. The FFS was delivered to the training center early this fall and is now ready for training. Bombardier Challenger... 16 October 2018
Pegasus Airlines commissioned Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, to build an Airbus A321NX Over Wing Exit Trainer to help the airline’s cabin crew become proficient in all normal, abnormal and emergency situations with the aircraft’s door. Spatial manufactured the custom-built trainer to replicate all the functionalities of... 16 October 2018
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