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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Elbit Systems of Australia won a three-year contract from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to deliver a Cyber Training Range that will boost its cyber security capabilities. Elbit Systems will provide an interim cyber range, a network design and build, cyber-range training and teaching materials. The range will be used... 7 September 2018
Cloud Global Group acquired a second Diamond DA42 Twinstar aircraft for its subsidiary company, ACS Flight Training. The £1-million investment will double the Twinstar fleet used for commercial flight training at Perth Airport in Scotland. The DA42 features an environmentally friendly diesel engine and a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit with... 6 September 2018
CACI International Inc., a provider of information solutions and services, won a prime position on a nine-year, $184-million multiple-award contract to support the U.S. Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (DCNO) Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (MPT&E) organization. The MPT&E organization is responsible for manning the fleet and making sure that... 6 September 2018
Sponsored Content The Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual International Flight Crew Training Conference, which takes place in London from 25-26 September, is focused on addressing the changes occurring in training programmes as they move from task-and-hour-based to output-and-competency-based training. The conference will reflect on the Competency Based Training & Assessment (CBTA)... 5 September 2018
Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, won a contract to build and install a Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer (CEET) and a Cabin Service Trainer (CST) for Aircalin’s cabin crew training program at its training facility in New Caledonia, France. The hybrid A320 / A330 CEET will train the... 5 September 2018
Reiser Simulation and Training (RST) received EASA Level D Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) qualification for the H145 it installed at Norwegian Competence Centre Helicopter (NCCH) in Stavanger, Norway last month. RST developed the FFS that includes a full NVIS-compatible replicated H145 helicopter cockpit and simulated Helionix® Step 2 avionics suite. The... 5 September 2018
CAA International (CAAi), the training division of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), launched a two-day training course on risk-based oversight and surveillance. Risk-Based Oversight, or Performance-Based Regulation as it is commonly known in the UK, is an oversight system that compliments compliance-based auditing. It lets regulators identify and... 4 September 2018
The Belgian Army customized MASA Group’s SWORD, a next-generation wargame solution, for it’s own use within a record of three months. The Belgian Army selected SWORD as its constructive simulation solution in February – demonstrating, MASA says, how flexible and adaptable SWORD is and how users can make it work... 4 September 2018
Skyborne Airline Academy, a new airline training academy, launched at Gloucestershire Airport in the U.K., under the guidance of owners and aviation training figures Tom Misner, Skyborne Chairman; Lee Woodward, Skyborne CEO and previous business development director at CTC Aviation; and Ian Cooper, Skyborne COO and former operations director at... 3 September 2018
L3 MAS, a provider of ISS system upgrade and life-extension solutions, won a contract extension from the Royal Canadian Air Force to provide engineering, repair & overhaul and publication management services on the CT-114 Tutor aircraft fleet. L3 MAS originally won the contract from 2016 to 2018, with three one-year... 30 August 2018
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