Patrick Johnston
Patrick Johnston is an experienced journalist having reported and edited on a wide range of news, sport and lifestyle stories over a 12 year career at Reuters. He specializes in digital storytelling and holds a First Class Master's degree in Media and Communications from City, University in London.
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Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) units entered the Black Sea on March 23 for routine operations in the area, including exercises with the Georgian Navy. SNMG’s task unit comprises three frigates from Canada, Italy and Turkey, commanded by Italian Navy Rear Admiral Paolo Fantoni. With Allied nations Bulgaria,... 25 March 2020
The Royal Navy is continuing its global operations but is ready to provide help at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than a dozen warships and submarines are in deployment on front-line operations from south Georgia to south-east Asia. They are keeping the UK safe and the sea lanes... 25 March 2020
Alpha Aviation Group (AAG) has increased its simulator fleet to seven, the most of any pilot trainers in the Philippines. AAG bought an Alsim AL172. It has been qualified by the Federal Aviation Administration as an Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD). The model meets the airplane AATD approval criteria. 24 March 2020
CAE Healthcare and UK-based iRIS Health Solutions are to make CAE’s COVID-19 Simulated Clinical Experience (SCE) for healthcare available free to the global iRIS community. iRIS and the SCE will be accessible to all of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) to aid collaboration. The SSH has 4,200... 24 March 2020
Skyborne Airline Academy is hosting an online open day as they go more virtual amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The 20-minute online tour showcases its Gloucestershire Airport HQ, its aircraft and simulators to prospective trainees and their families. There is a video presentation which covers the application process and training... 24 March 2020
Aerospace engineer Meggitt is leading a consortium of aerospace suppliers working on production of ventilators for Britain's National Health Service. The aerospace group also includes GKN, Airbus, Thales and Renishaw, British media reported. The consortium is one of three aiming to develop and produce 20,000 medical ventilator prototypes to... 24 March 2020
French carrier strike group and its flagship, the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, trained with the Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) for four days last week. Their combined exercises ran between 19-22 March bringing together warships from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom... 24 March 2020
Flyco has released a free online COVID-19 course for its users. The course covers general information about the virus and some precautionary measures for fighting it. It is available on all the administrator panels. Flyco said the COVID-19 course takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. The UK-based e-learning provider... 24 March 2020
FSTC Image courtesy of Minister for IT, Industries, MA & UD, Telangan @MinisterKTR Indian ATO Flight Simulation Technique Centre (FSTC) has inaugurated its new eight-bay pilot training facility in Hyderabad. An A320neo, Bombardier Dash-8 and ATR72-600 simulator occupy three of the bays with another five simulators positioned at FSTC's... 24 March 2020
UK-based Inzpire has concluded delivery of electronic warfare training to European military delegates in Estonia. Named No.1 Baltic’s Electronic Warfare course, the training saw 25 ab-initio students studying a tailor-made electronic warfare curriculum. The students included air surveillance radar personnel, intelligence personnel and aircrew from Estonian, Latvian and Polish... 23 March 2020
