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Williamtown, Australia - BAE Systems Australia has teamed with Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant) and RMIT University, to provide a leading-edge aviation technical training capability to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The ADF Aviation Technical Training (ADF ATT) project will provide aviation and other technical tradespeople within the Australian Defence Force with initial trade skilling and postgraduate technical training. The five year contract commences in December 2012 with the scope to extend to 20 years. It is expected that more than 950 students per year will be...

Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant) has recently been awarded a Contract by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for the support of twelve Rail and three Police Simulators at seven separate locations. KMW has delivered full mission simulators to four train operators covering seven classes of trains.  These simulators include the entire train model and the simulation of signalling systems.  The simulation software also covers malfunctions that can be applied by the instructor. Pennant's contract is for first line support and scheduled maintenance tasks for an...

Pennant International Group plc ("Pennant"), is delighted to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Pennant Training Systems Limited, has been awarded a contract worth in excess of £10 million by AgustaWestland. The contract is for the development of Maintenance Training Equipment for the AW159 Lynx Wildcat helicopter. The suite of hardware devices will be used by the Army and Royal Navy to familiarise students with the physical layout, operation and organisational level maintenance and flight servicing of the aircraft systems. This equipment will comprise full size representations of...

Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant), in partnership with virtual reality specialists Maelstrom, have produced and installed an eight-user immersive (headset-based) virtual reality parachute training system at the Parachute Training School (PTS), RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, UK. Consisting of eight (8) student stations and an instructor's console the VRPT provides a virtual reality environment that immerses the student in a virtual world where a parachute descent is simulated. VRPT allows the students to practice their parachuting skills in a variety of parachutes and rehearse...

Pennant Information Services has been chosen to deliver a multi-million dollar contract providing a full suite of maintenance manuals and provide training support for one of the world's leading engineering companies. This new award builds on the success Pennant has enjoyed delivering similar services to the North American rail transportation market over the last 12 years which has taken us from the east to west coast and back. In delivering this contract Pennant will provide operation and maintenance staff of one of the USA's leading Transportation Authorities with essential information...

Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant) has been awarded a contract, from the UK MoD, for the support of four legacy Warrior Frame Electrical Layouts (FELs). Each FEL is a full size, open frame, space model of the British Army Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicle, populated with real and simulated electrical equipment. The FELs are located at the British Army's School of Electrical Mechanical Engineering (SEME) Bordon in Hampshire, where they are used to provide basic training for Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) tradesmen. Managed by the Combat Tracks Group Project Team...

James Laing, who works for Pennant Information Services Ltd based in Aberdeen, has been officially selected as part of the 10 strong archery team to represent Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, which are taking place in Delhi, India in October this year.  

CCTech 2010 ILS & RAMS Conference in Beijing. With over 140 attendees from defence and civil organisations, including presentations from Pennant, Isograph and CCTech, as well as Industry and Government customers' experiences, the conference was deemed to have been a great success. Chris Mair, General Manager of Pennant Software Services, updated the conference on Pennant Group's successes in 2009 and the investment and launch of the multi-lingual OmegaPS and OSAM (OmegaPS Support Analysis Model). The OmegaPS suite is the first and only fully compliant Chinese LSAR product for MIL STD...

Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant) is pleased to announce that it has been contracted by the FsAST PT to upgrade existing RNAS Culdrose Instructor-Led Sea King courseware (from PPSE to the FsAST Standard). The updates will include aircraft / equipment modifications and revised training objectives. The courseware will be developed in accordance with the Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT); will be SCORM compliant and be capable of distribution over the Defence Learning Portal (DLP). Pennant Training Systems Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pennant International Group...

Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant) is pleased to announce that it has been contracted by the FsAST PT to upgrade existing DCAE Cosford Instructor-Led Jaguar courseware (from PPSE to the FsAST Standard). . The updates will include aircraft / equipment modifications and revised training objectives. The courseware will be developed in accordance with the Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) will be SCORM compliant and be capable of distribution over the Defence Learning Portal (DLP). Pennant Training Systems Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pennant International Group...

December 2009 Pennant Training Systems Limited (Pennant) is pleased to announce final acceptance by the Royal Navy's Type 45 Training Unit of the Training Media Enabling Contract (TMEC) Warfare package. As part of the T3 consortium, Pennant supplied maintenance training media for the Type 45 "Warfare" system. Responsibilities included storyboard design and production of media assets, including sophisticated emulations and the subsequent testing of those assets. The T3 consortium also includes BAE Systems Insyte, Thales Training and Simulation Ltd (TTSL) and VT Flagship. Utilising BAE...

Pennant Training Systems Limited (PTSL) has been awarded a Contract by the Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team (FsAST PT) for the design, manufacture, installation and support of eight (8) Virtual Reality Parachute Trainers (VRPTs) for the Parachute Training School (PTS) at RAF Brize Norton. The VRPT will be an immersive training aid, giving the student a real time experience in a virtual world that simulates a parachute descent in either free fall or static line. The VRPT will allow the student to practise his parachuting and malfunction skills in a safe but realistic...

Pennant Software Services Ltd working with their Chinese distributor CCTech are pleased to announce the successful sale of additional OmegaPS LSAR software to Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute.  This dramatically increases their investment in the OmegaPS suite that was initiated when the first licences were installed earlier this year. Chris Mair General Manager stated that " We are extremely pleased to further strengthen our relationship with Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute.  The second tranche of licences are the result of excellent...

The Saudi based Advanced Arabian Simulation Company (AASC) and Pennant International UK are delighted to announce a new and exciting partnership - offering Saudi clients a unique and comprehensive simulation and training solution, guaranteed by decades of high level international experience in major commercial and government projects. AASC is a joint venture between Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) and Thales.  AASC is a Saudi company that develops, implements, manufactures and supports training and simulation solutions - guaranteeing a unique national (and regional) training,...