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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The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is exploring how telexistence capabilities can benefit U.K defence and security. The MOD said it wants to better understand the technology readiness level to inform future investment. It wants solutions that allow users to interact with or immerse themselves in a remote location as if... 17 March 2020
Blackshape and Transavia Airlines have signed an exclusive teaming relationship to enhance initial and recurrent training of Transavia pilots. Transavia started its own initial pilot training program last year. The program also leverages an existing partnership with Zelf Vliegen, an ATO in Lelystad, Netherlands. They will use the Blackshape... 16 March 2020
SKY4u has chosen the German Flight School ARDEX to deliver the Advanced Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT). The UPRT includes theoretical and practical flight training. The aim is to prepare SKY4u student pilots for situations in unusual flight conditions. Pilots should be able to safely and quickly return... 13 March 2020
Alpha Aviation Academy UAE (AAA) has ordered an A320 FTD-2 from Dutch-based MPS. They will deliver the simulator to AAA's facility at Sharjah Airport in mid-2020. The A320 FTD-2 will allow the Academy to provide additional capacity for the Type Rating and MPL training for pilots. This order comes... 13 March 2020
Inzpire Limited’s Collective Training Division has recently delivered the final Exercise IRON DRAGON under the Distributed Synthetic Air and Land Training (DSALT) programme. Since 2017, Inzpire’s synthetic training experts have delivered three iterations of the week-long IRON DRAGON exercise, providing divisional level training at the Air Battlespace Training Centre... 13 March 2020
VA Airline Training (VA) will award 24 bursaries to celebrate 24 months of EASA MCC Airline Pilot Standards (APS MCC) training in Europe. The 24 £500 bursaries will enable 24 new APS MCC trainees to embark upon the final ab initio leg of their airline pilot training journey at... 12 March 2020
Turkish flight training school Istanbul Aviation Academy have bought an Alsim AL250 flight simulator. The Alsim AL250 is a generic and compact simulator for single and multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR training. The device, Alsim say, responds to the training requirements of smaller and mid-sized... 12 March 2020
Swiss ATO FLY7 has signed up to use the FlightLogger platform. FLY7 is the second-largest Pilatus PC-12 operator, a brokerage team and the biggest Pilatus training center in Europe. With the help of FlightLogger, FLY7 can now offer a fully digital experience for all their staff, instructors and students. 12 March 2020
The ICAO Council has adopted a special declaration on COVID-19 during the fourth meeting of its 219th Session. At the Montreal meeting, the council urged member states and stakeholders to follow guidance from the World Health Organisation (WHO). It also expressed strong support for WHO's call for states to perform... 11 March 2020
Swiss ATO Aero Locarno has chosen the Sonaca 200 to complete and renew its fleet of training aircraft. Aero Locarno chose Sonaca Aircraft's two-seater single-engine aircraft. "The Sonaca 200 clearly stands out from the crowd," said Stefano Buratti, Aero Locarno CEO. "With its aluminum structure, the Sonaca 200 is... 10 March 2020
