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.
Patrick Johnston Articles & News
Refine Search
Defence and contingent workforce company, TBW Global, has secured two large contracts with NATO. Commencing in January 2020, the company will support NATO Mission Iraq (NMI), providing simultaneous interpreters during workshops and conferences held in Baghdad. NMI is a non-combat mission, providing training on a variety of disciplines. The... 8 January 2020
GECI Group, in partnership with Micro Nav, will supply a BEST 3D tower and radar simulator for Ethiopian Airlines Group (EAG) at its premises in Addis Ababa. This will be the first time that EAG will use an air traffic control simulator to deliver training capability. It is doing... 8 January 2020
EDM have installed a high-fidelity B777 Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer (CEET) for All Nippon Airways (ANA) at its new, ANA Blue Base training center in Tokyo. The EDM CEET includes specially requested features. Close attention was paid to the critical dimensions within the cabin, such as distances from attendant stations... 8 January 2020
Boeing has recommended its MAX pilots under go 737 MAX simulator training prior to the grounded aircraft returning to service. "Safety is Boeing’s top priority," said interim Boeing CEO Greg Smith. "Public, customer and stakeholder confidence in the 737 MAX is critically important to us and with that focus... 8 January 2020
TESLASUIT have unveiled a new glove which allows users to feel virtual textures. The company say it makes the immersion into VR more accurate and realistic. The TESLASUIT GLOVE can be used together with the TESLASUIT full-body haptic feedback suit as a set or separately. The glove integrates haptics, motion... 8 January 2020
VA Airline Training (VA) has welcomed four Titan Airways cadets, its first airline sponsored trainees of 2020, at its Cambridge training centre. VA’s Managing Director Anthony Petteford, Titan Airways’ Pilot Manager Captain Matthew Wilson and other senior personnel from both VA and Titan Airways welcomed the cadets along with... 7 January 2020
Electric aircraft advocates Quantum Air has chosen OSM Aviation Academy as a preferred pilot training partner. A Quantum-branded pilot training program will be set up at OSM Aviation Academy with OSM committed to referring a steady supply of pilots trained to FAA commercial standards. Quantum Air will provide tuition... 7 January 2020
Aviation consultants To70 have raised questions about training despite revealing a big fall in the number of large passenger aircraft accidents and fatalities in 2019. There were 257 deaths from 86 accidents, eight of which were fatal, in 2019, To70 said. This included the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX... 2 January 2020
Finnish tech company Reaktor and the University of Helsinki have launched 'Elements of AI', a free course in Artificial Intelligence. 'Elements of AI' consists of a series of online courses to give a snapshot of AI to users regardless of age and level of education. "It explains what artificial intelligence... 31 December 2019
Latvian flight school Eriva Pilotu Skola has moved into the cloud by signing up for FlightLogger’s flight training management platform. With FlightLogger, Eriva Pilotu Skola can digitally handle activities such as flight programs, ground school theory, bookings, flight registrations and maintenance, as well as certificate management, document management, and... 31 December 2019
