Training
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
Training
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,
Training
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
Training
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
Training
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
Training
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
Training
Textron Systems Support Solutions, a subsidiary of aerospace and defense firm Textron Inc., has announced the introduction of its new unmanned systems training course catalog. Building on the company’s decades of experience and millions of service hours devoted to training and deploying skilled unmanned systems operators and maintainers around
Training
UAV Factory has announced that it has developed a 4-Day Integrator Training Course for its Penguin B Platform. UAV Factory has in-depth knowledge of the autopilot integration process. The training program encompasses years of dedication and use, by both the UAV Factory engineering team as well as customers in 37
Training
Just days after the U.S. government said it would allow the sale of its drones to military allies, Australia’s conservative government on Monday said the country’s air force had already commenced training aircrew and support staff in the U.S. on the MQ-9 ’Reaper’. “It would be
VTOL
CybAero signed a framework agreement with a company belonging to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) on July 2. The framework agreement entails a commitment by AVIC to purchase at least 70 of CybAero's unmanned helicopter systems over the next eight years. The framework agreement is expected
Business
Officials at NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corp. (NASC), a supplier of unmanned aircraft systems and professional engineering services, selected CAE in Montreal, Canada, as its preferred simulation and training provider for its TigerShark XP UAS. CAE, a provider of simulation and training for civil and military aviation, signed a strategic alliance
Training
The Netherlands and aerospace services company Strat Aero has announced that it has entered into discussions at a senior level of the Netherlands Government with a view to establishing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ("UAV") Training Centre in the Netherlands (the "Training Facility"), which when operational would