Fiona Greenyer
Fiona has been News Editor for CAT and MS&T Magazines since 2001. She regularly writes and posts news to the website and writes and edits the news digest for the magazines. Additionally, Fiona has written a number of cabin crew features for CAT. Fiona also works on the production side of the magazines, editing and administering the editorial content for all publications. Fiona is Conference Co-ordinator for WATS, EATS and APATS, managing all speaker logistics.
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A challenge issued by the Montréal General Hospital Foundation and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, backed by a prize of C$200,000, has spurred engineers at flight simulator manufacturer CAE to design a prototype, easy-to-build ventilator. Ventilators are used to keep patients’ lungs supplied with oxygen... 8 April 2020
A taskforce of volunteer British Airways employees, including cabin crews and logistics teams, will be assisting efforts against coronavirus in the UK. “We’ve had an overwhelming response to our request for volunteers from across British Airways to help in the community fight against coronavirus,” said BA Director of External... 8 April 2020
Micro Nav recently provided BAE Systems, Warton, UK with an upgrade to their existing ATC radar simulator. The ATC function at BAE Systems, Warton services a unique mix of civil, military and test flying. The upgrade consisted of a complete hardware refresh and an upgrade to the latest version... 8 April 2020
Cranfield University received in February its sixth Queen’s Anniversary Prize, presented by HRH The Prince of Wales, with HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes are the highest awards in the UK... 7 April 2020
Air India's pilot unions are opposing a 10% cut in “flying allowances,” a category which falls unequally on pilots compared with management of the state-owned airline. They said the decision goes against the spirit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to Indian companies to ensure that salaries of employees... 7 April 2020
“We are making a commitment to transform the definition of airline cleanliness – Delta Clean,” says Delta Air Lines Chief Customer Experience Officer Bill Lentsch in a YouTube video (you can watch it here). By early May, all aircraft will be “fogged” with a hospital-type disinfectant before each flight... 7 April 2020
Concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic is putting pressure on some operators and crew to neglect or suspend some aspects of aviation safety - such as the standards for crew fatigue management, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) HUPER Fatigue Management Working Group has provided some initial... 6 April 2020
Airbus continues to purchase and supply millions of face masks from China, the large majority of which will be donated to governments of the Airbus home countries, namely France, Germany, Spain and the UK. An Airbus flight test crew has just completed its latest mission with an A350-1000 test... 6 April 2020
With pilots sent home due to COVID-19, Scandinavian charter airline SunClass has found a way to maintain air crew proficiency using Aviation eLearning’s V360E. The customisable virtual train and track software solves the urgent training need and minimises the amount of training required once full operation resumes. “The Virtual... 6 April 2020
Simtech Aviation has sold its ATR 72-500 simulator to Finnair. The TRU Simulation + Training simulator is certified to Level D full motion by the Irish Aviation Authority and will be relocated to Finnair’s Training Base in Helsinki in the coming weeks. Simtech Aviation, in conjunction with Finnair and... 6 April 2020
