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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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
MetaVR’s Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) is providing the image generation for the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Reconfigurable Virtual Cockpit Trainers (RVCT) delivered to the U.S. Army as part of an Other Transaction Authority (OTA 1) program. The MetaVR VRSG-based simulators include multiple versions of mixed-reality rotorcraft reconfigurable cockpit... 26 September 2019
Aluminium producers Alcoa will use virtual reality to prepare staff for high-risk tasks at its alumina refineries in Western Australia. 26 September 2019
French simulation specialists ALSIM have agreed the sale of an AL 250 SEP MEP to Aviation Career Center; its first sale in Slovenia. The ALSIM AL250 is a compact simulator for single & multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR training. It meets all regulatory standards and... 26 September 2019
