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Tag: PTN 2.0

Royal Air Force partners with PTN to innovate pilot training pipeline
March 29, 2019 — It’s been said that “seeing is believing” and after a visit last May to the Pilot Training Next facility in Austin and facing a pilot shortage, the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force is taking innovation to the next level with the inclusion of a student and an instructor pilot in the second iteration of the class... MORE

Royal Air Force Flight Officer Syd Janota (foreground), Pilot Training Next 2.0 student, observes a fellow student flying a virtual-reality training sortie at the PTN facility at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Austin, Texas, March 18, 2019. The RAF have both a student-pilot and an instructor pilot participating in the class as they look to introduce PTN lessons learned into their flying training pipeline.

Innovation, scalability and data the focus as PTN 2.0 begins
February 28, 2019 — Innovation, ability to scale rapidly and use of big data to drive decision-making are the three focus areas for the second iteration of Pilot Training Next 2.0, now underway in Austin... MORE

2nd Lt. Seth Murphy-Sweet, Pilot Training Next student, takes a 3D vision test prior to virtual reality flying training at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, Feb. 5, 2019. Like the first version of PTN, the second iteration is working in a strong collaboration with AFWERX’s Austin hub at the Capital Factory, gaining conduits into industry that help the PTN team work solutions to issues they encounter as they develop the program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sean M. Worrell)