This is beyond idiotic.
Straw. Camel.
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Exactly…ridiculous logic at play here. Understand reasoning if it is the area affected by a red warning…but the weather in the South West is going to be vastly different in Inverness?
Stolen meme, thank you to the person that shared it with me.
They clearly have no regard at all for how much effort people have put in to things happening this weekend. No consultation with anyone. Joke.
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The reasons for going paperless are all the more clear now. It’s not to save money, it’s to prevent papercuts.
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Its everything
I bet Gibraltar Sqn are chuffed to bits!
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Well whoopy do - That’s next week’s plans out of the window for the squadrons in our sector. 
Even if this was actually national, the idea that wind on Friday might cause damage, or that the warning might extend, is enough to shut down the entire country for the entire block is a little…
If your roof doesn’t collapse on Friday, and it’s not windy where you are on Saturday, where’s the problem? Whatever happened to the notion of a DRA? Or are CFAV apparently stupid enough to turn up and go “oh, there’s no roof, ah well into the classroom we go. Why is that puddle sparking?”…
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I’m sure HQAC will just see this all as ill-informed whinging from those salty about losing VA (we can just rebook though).
There was a balance that could have been struck here which still would have been diligent on their part - issue guidance along the following:
- Monitor the local weather hourly in the run up to and during your event
- Any red warnings = full stop
- Amber warning = Sqn only or outdoor activity
- yellow warning = no outdoor activity (although still a cautious extreme step - yellow is a bit meh and “outdoor activity” is wide-ranging)
I’d actually understand a stop on off-unit residential for anyone in or travelling to any area currently under a warning or any residential anywhere using prearranged with-driver service transport - you wouldn’t want people stranded by the rules, lack of short notice travel, or travelling long distances considering how dynamic the situation may be.
Spending longer than 30 seconds on it would have developed something a little more meaty.
This advice would still have stopped our plans, but prevented stopping what could have still been perfectly viable activities.
Now time to sit back and watch as the met office downgrades everything before tomorrow morning.
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Cmdt asked “what are we doing about this?” and some civil service minion jumped the shark.
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There’s only about 20 people and Cardiff in that area!
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It’s getting absolutely slated on farcebook.
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Glad people are going at it on Facebook. Hopefully they might realise how utterly rediculous this decision is.
One only has to flip through the shares of the HQAC post on Facebook to see the vast impact this is causing - One poor sqn is cancelling their Dinining in Night with cadets and staff losing thousands in prepaid meals etc.
Junior Leaders who are out in the field is having to find a way of getting all cadets back home this evening to all corners of the country.
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If I was them I would be making a LOT of phone calls to anyone and everyone saying “let us do it or pay us”.
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I’d be pretending I haven’t checked my emails
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I’d be speaking with Solicitors also…
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I totally get the stop on outdoor activities, I wouldn’t want to be in the field or on the moors etc in this, be it with Cadets or experienced adults.
But indoor activities, especially if outside the red forecast area seems a bit of overkill. I hope that the Squadron mentioned above who has had to cancel a dining out last minute has all of their losses reimbursed by HQAC, as I would be pushing them for that if it was my Squadron.