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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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
Ravenswood Solutions won a $1.3-million contract from the US Army Joint Modernization Command (JMC), a subordinate of the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC), to provide communications support services during a Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) event that will take place this fall at Fort Bliss, Texas and at White Sands Missile... 30 August 2018
The U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS) conducted its first flight of Airborne Systems Training and Research Support (ASTARS) III. ASTARS III is a customized C-26A Metroliner equipped with military equipment and subsystems. It’s also the third generation of a flying classroom supporting the USNTPS curriculum, which also has a... 29 August 2018
MINT Software Systems signed an agreement for Hawaiian Airlines to implement the MINT Training and Resource Management System (MINT TRMS) to enhance and optimize the airline’s crew training and qualification management. MINT TRMS gives training planners, instructors and crews anytime-anywhere online access to their training schedules, electronic grading forms, reports,... 29 August 2018
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