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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Gene Colabatistto, CAE's Group President Defence & Security, has announced his plan to retire at the end of the year. Marc Parent, CAE's President and CEO, paid tribute to Colabatistto's work over the last seven years in the role. "Gene Colabatistto contributed greatly to the transformation of our Defence... 3 October 2019
CAE have inaugurated two new UK training centres at London Gatwick and Manchester to support the start of its 10-year exclusive pilot training agreement with easyJet. A third training centre in Milan, Italy, will be inaugurated on October 10. CAE also recently expanded its Barcelonatraining centre. Airline customers, governments... 2 October 2019
U.S. and Ukraine flags were lowered last week to mark the end of Rapid Trident, a multinational training in Ukraine. It featured over 3,700 Soldiers from 14 different nations taking part in a fortnight of training in Yavoriv that included some firsts; the largest U.S. and Ukraine wet gap... 2 October 2019
Over 3,000 troops and 200 vehicles from 12 NATO Allies took place in exercise Silver Arrow. The multinational exercise, which wraps up in Latvia on 3 October, provides an opportunity for forces to enhance their readiness and train with one of four NATO battlegroups in the region. Exercise Silver... 2 October 2019
Airways Aviation have launched a new scholarship to encourage more students to consider a career as a pilot. The scholarship was launched at the company's Airline Pilot Careers Day at London Oxford Airport. The careers day allowed prospective pilots to tour the facilities and experience first-hand what it would... 2 October 2019
Quadrant Group has begun delivering pilot training courses for individuals and airlines after achieving Approved Training Organisation (ATO) certification. UK CAA/EASA accredited Quadrant Pilot delivers courses in its B737 NG and A320 Level D full flight simulators. “With our purpose-built training centre housing full flight simulators for the B737... 2 October 2019
Australia's Ballarat Aero Club have signed up to use FlightLogger software. The aeroclub, based at GA airport outside of Ballarat City, support recreation flying and have a training organization. It supports RPL, IR, FI and all the way up to a commercial pilot license. As part of the installation,... 1 October 2019
PICO d.o.o., an EASA Certified ATO based in Loce, Slovenia, has awarded a pilot training contract to Avsoft International. PICO is using Avsoft’s A320 initial aircraft systems eLearning course for ground school theory pilot training. All modules and tailored exams from the initial course satisfy requirements for its A320... 27 September 2019
KONGSBERG Defence & Aerospace AS have signed a framework agreement with Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) to jointly develop simulation solutions. The two will work on ideas for the KONGSBERG PROTECTOR family of Remote Weapon Stations and Medium Caliber Turrets. Under the agreement, BISim will serve as KONGSBERG’s simulation provider... 26 September 2019
KLM has taken delivery of a V7000 Brigade VIEW fire trainer from Flame Aviation. The model is an upgrade on Flame Aviation's V9000 Commander that KLM used temporarily while building a new training centre. With the new centre open, training will start immediately on the V7000. "The realistic training scenario’s... 26 September 2019
