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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced that construction has commenced on its new, five-and-a-half acre RPA training facility at Grand Sky Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) business and aviation park in Grand Forks, North Dakota. “Today’s groundbreaking of our new state-of-the-art training facility continues to elevate GA-ASI’s partnership with
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K-State Salina’s unmanned aircraft systems program is getting a significant addition with the recent completion of one of the largest enclosed unmanned flight facilities in the nation. Built in only three weeks during September, the UAS Pavilion measures 300-feet-long by 200-feet-wide and is 50-feet-tall. It will enable both staff
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Tintri Inc., a producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualization and cloud environments, today announced that the U.S. Army Joint Systems Integration Lab (JSIL) is increasing user satisfaction and improving performance by using Tintri's VM-aware storage to manage all virtualized workloads in its unmanned aircraft training systems
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The U.S. Air Force has delayed until possibly next year a decision on whether to let enlisted airmen fly RPAS. A decision on the matter was expected in November, but will probably be pushed back until January, officials said last week at the Air and Space Conference near Washington,
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has confirmed plans to open a RPA Training Academy in Grand Forks, North Dakota. GA-ASI has signed a 10-year lease and is expecting to break ground soon. GA-ASI flight crew training will commence early next year and the company expects to welcome its first Foreign
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CAE has revealed plans to replicate the unmanned air vehicle training that it offers to the US Air Force to more operators of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems family of Predator UAVs. The company currently provides pilot training for the MQ-1 and MQ-9 UAVs to the USAF at Holloman AFB
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A brand new drone training school in the UK UAV Air is the brainchild of four senior airline pilots along with two of the country’s most widely respected drone operators, Cloud12 and UAViate. Will Coldwell, Director & A320 Pilot said, “The commercial drone industry is very new and growing
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Gauteng-based ProWings Training is the first flying school in South Africa to be approved by the SA Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) as a commercial remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) training organisation. The authorisation was issued by the SACAA on Friday. ProWings chief executive Ian Melamed today said he and Michael Muller,
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AEgis Technologies has successfully fielded a Vampire Institutional Training System (VITS) for classroom simulation at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. Sinclair has incorporated Vampire as part of a state-of-the-art learning lab included in the National UAS Training and Certification Center. The simulation will support both credit and non-credit courses, as
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Unmanned aircraft systems operators now have the option to train anywhere, anytime and in real time without having to sit in a classroom or be co-located with the other UAS operator. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office, together with their industry partners at Camber Corporation based out of Huntsville, have
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Italy’s Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness has contracted Canadian training system provider CAE to to develop and deliver upgrades and enhancements to a Predator Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Mission Trainer being developed for the Italian Air Force. Together, CAE and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) intend to
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Israel Aerospace Industries has acquired a full independent capability for UAS payload simulation by purchasing TView, a 3D image generator for simulation and C4I applications from Tiltan Systems Engineering, an Israeli company. According to IAI the agreement allows it to adapt the software, including the use of source code and