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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VENYO will provide a B737NG Fixed Base Simulator (FBS) to Turkish ATO AYJET by the end of the year. The simulator allows AYJET to adapt its growing pilot training offering at its Istanbul facility. These including the MPL Training program recently launched together with major airline companies in Turkey. 29 October 2019
Norway’s Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) will open its airline pilot education programme at Hévíz-Balaton Airport, Hungary, in early 2020. PFA, together with the Hungarian government, will provide 100% financing to EU-students who qualify to become airline pilots. PFA is the first and only pilot training organisation in Europe to... 29 October 2019
On the opening day of EATS 2019, CAE launched the Loganair Graduate Pilot Program and signed a new three-year pilot training contract with the British airline. "The launch of Loganair’s Graduate Pilot Program is a great opportunity for aspiring professional pilots," said Maurice Boyle, Loganair COO. "We are giving... 29 October 2019
L3Harris Technologies has provided 10 L3Harris Pilot Pathways Female Scholarships for 2019 towards the cost of the company’s Integrated Airline Transport Pilot License (APTL) training. "We are passionate about encouraging more women onto the flight deck," said Geoff van Klaveren, Vice President, L3Harris’ Airline Academy. "It’s a significant issue... 29 October 2019
Barcelona-based airline Volotea has signed an exclusive five-year contract with Airbus to train all its pilots. The training will start in January and includes Type-Rating as well as long-term Recurrent training linked to Volotea's growing fleet of Airbus A319s – which will exceed 50 aircraft in 2023. The organization... 29 October 2019
Sponsored Content Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is launching virtual reality developed by Bolverk XR to enhance its cabin crew training on emergency landing procedures. SAS has followed the technology trends for a long time and believe that by training in VR scenarios, crew will receive improved and realistic training... 29 October 2019
Construction has begun on the BAA Training China facility in Zhengzhou city, Henan province. A ground breaking ceremony took place on Oct 25 at the site, which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2020. When fully open, it will house six full flight simulators. BAA expects... 28 October 2019
A major US defence aviation company has taken delivery of the first four of Cobra Simulation’s new Cobra180 immersive displays. The customer saw the product in its final prototype stage and placed an order for the entire first production run. The units are already in service ahead of the... 28 October 2019
Pilot training manufacturers Simloc will join forces with cabin crew specialists Flight Level at European Airline Training Symposium (EATS) in Berlin from October 29-30. The joint partnership approach follow the recent purchase of a Flight Level stock package by Simloc. The two companies will receive people at booth 609... 28 October 2019
Global Training Aviation (GTA) has unveiled its new Level D B737 flight simulator, which is ready for training. The simulator has been developed by Indra, which holds a 35.07% stake in GTA. It may take control of GTA in the future. Fernando Abril-Martorell, President of Indra, and Fernando Gómez... 28 October 2019
