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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James Couldridge and Dhak Karanveer Singh have shared The Royal Aeronautical Society's new civil cadet pilot award. The annual award, devised by the Flight Crew Training Group (FTG) in 2019, recognises an ab initio commercial pilot cadet trained by an Approved Training Organisation (ATO). Couldridge and Singh trained respectively... 18 February 2020
VA Airline Training's (VA) inaugural Ryanair Mentored Programme APS MCC graduates have all joined the airline. The successful graduates will undertake an upcoming B737 type rating. Cambridge-based VA is Ryanair's only training provider in the UK for the Mentored APS MCC programme. It pioneered the new EASA Airline Pilot... 17 February 2020
Endoscopy manufacturers KARL STORZ and VirtaMed, the medical training simulation firm, have collaborated on a mixed reality simulator to enhance laparoscopic skills training. The LapTrainer simulator enables medical professionals to acquire key skills with increased efficiency by repetition of short simulation sequences. The simulator features an anatomically correct abdomen... 17 February 2020
Oman Aviation Academy (OAA) have awarded a contract to MPS for a B737 MAX FTD. MPS expect delivery in mid 2020. The device will have the latest version of MAX software installed and will also include advanced options such as MPS instructorless training. OAA is based at Sohar Airport. 16 February 2020
AirHub Flight School, a new Lithuanian school close to Vilnius Airport, is going digital with FlightLogger. The first students will start at the AirHub Flight School in April. The school will provide advanced training solutions for licensed commercial pilots. They have invested in DIAMOND DA40, DIAMOND DA42, FNPT II... 14 February 2020
Professione Volare, an ATO in Forli, Italy, have bought an Alsim ALX simulator. They had been using an Alsim AL200 MCC for over 15 years through Alsim customer I.S.A.E.R.S. "At the end of 2019, for our 25th anniversary, we decided to upgrade our fleet buying our own simulator," said... 14 February 2020
Antycip Simulation have designed and installed 'VIRTUAL CORSICA', a new immersive room that will allow the University of Corsica to study society’s relationship with nature. The two-sided L-shaped CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) type room has two Christie Mirage WU14K-M projectors connected to an angled lens with high-tech direct... 14 February 2020
Cambridge-based VA Airline Training (VA) are using ‘Graduate Pilot Champions’ to help its Airline Pilot Standards (APS) MCC graduate pilots secure job opportunities. VA’s Managing Director Anthony Petteford and Head of Customer Engagement, Karen Bath - will act as ‘Graduate Pilot Champions’. Anthony and Karen between them have over... 13 February 2020
The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) wants the British Government and airlines to implement a pilot apprenticeship scheme to open up the career to a more diverse population. BALPA has already helped establish the first ever apprenticeship standard for commercial airline pilots in the UK. But a year on... 13 February 2020
Kongsberg Digital (KDI) has won its first K-Sim Safety simulator contract with the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society (NSRS). KDI will deliver a K-Sim Safety Advanced Fire Fighting Simulator (AFFS) to the NSRS training centre in Horten, Norway. The full-mission K-Sim Safety AFFS is a new simulator which addresses regulation VI/3,... 13 February 2020
