No we’re not.
Obviously moving towards this entity as thanks to Covid we already have an inverted management pyramid with more at the top than users at the bottom
Or else we become the Royal Air Force Footprint Display Team
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And the move to be the Royal Aerospace Force, obviously.
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As mentioned, Drainingtheswampoutofmyhead is a bit premature with his April Fools day jokes.
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It’s not going to be a Big Bang change but a evolution. If you don’t believe me, just look at how much correspondence, titling, jobs, surveys, plans etc all already use Aerospace rather than air or Aviation. Cadets of 10 years time will be going on drone flying days as well as gliding and flying.
Yes, the subject area is expanding, but we cannot forget our core activity. . .
I highly doubt they’ll be going on flying or gliding days
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So Annual Camp at Waddington will be over subscribed if cadets get to spend a week flying drones over sandy places
Although by then PS9 and XBoxXS will probably be of higher grade than the antiquated old things we will have access to.
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Ah, yes. By that metric we’ll soon be the Royal Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Force Cadets or the Royal Adventure Training Force Cadets soon.
There is plenty of correspondence, titling, jobs, surveys, plans etc. using those words rather than air or aviation.
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My point is that in your earlier point you said
As far as I know cadets wouldn’t take a Tutor up solo at any point - the only comparable course we offer is ACPS @ Tayside.
So its pointless saying there is no Cadet Crosswind Limit apart from the A/C limit and I know i wouldn’t dare send a student solo when there was a 25kt crosswind.
You’ve bored us all enough with the garbage you’ve been spewing out and one-sided view of how AEF is run, compared to how it could be run to allow us to actually be Air Cadets so thanks for playing - and until we become the Aerospace Cadets - goodbye (and when that happens I’ll eat my Peak.)
Sold, we can get rid of the Silver Winged Master Race and do some fun stuff instead.
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Gets my vote. Could of tons of cool stuff with all the money we waste on planes.
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Is that not also known as “Army Cadets” ?
Fine by me too.
No that’s the Shooting Cadets
Or look I’m a tree cadets
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@Victor_Zulu I understand your frustration but I think it’s important to argue for the key point rather than attacking in all directions.
The cadet (sortie) wind limit is 25kts, this is the same as the aircrafts X-wind limit. However the maximum wind limit for non cadet sorties is higher (not x-wind but total wind) this is due to the parachute limits for cadets.
Now I don’t know why that is, although i suspect there is some justification. But the point is that while I also disagree with the direction @Drainingtheswamp suggests is the future I know he has not been factually incorrect with regards to AEF operation.
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The tutor generally uses UHF for the traffic service to minimise the distraction you site of operating on a busy VHF frequency.
They couldn’t even (with more than a few ££££s) “re-fit” the gliders to be fit for purpose quickly, or, during the “pause,”*** look at alternatives to the protectionist 2FTS attitude…
ACTO35 was a farcical document - & didn’t even have gliding included at first. Wg Cdr Flying at 2FTS was most upset when I took him to task.
[*** = to me, still ongoing, & will be for a long while]
Oh, just remembered, might have to complete another survey form to throw in a few comments about the Vigilantes being grounded as too expensive to re-furbish, but with a grant from DfT, they can move to another organisation.
Even when the RAF uses RPAS pilots only, we should still be providing “real flying” for cadets - always. However, that will be a loooooong time down the military aviation road.
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Thanks @Jed the abuse for discussing some alternative views has been quite stark, but then I had been warned so I should not have been surprised!
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