Gliding "paused"

[AlexCorbin]

@Turbo

Let them learn the PTT element - ‘push forward to go down, pull back to go up’, and that’s all it is! - in house on squadron owned flight sims.

Believe this is on the agenda as long as your Sqn has an approved instructor

[tingger]

It doesn’t list those numbers in training, those are awards of that grade.

It doesn’t include 2017 or 2016.

One VGS does account for 50-65% of those staff cadet awards listed.

[Turbo]

@AlexCorbin

Believe this is on the agenda as long as your Sqn has an approved instructor

Wonder how difficult they can make it for a staff member to become an ‘approved instructor’?

[Turbo]

@tingger

It doesn’t list those numbers in training, those are awards of that grade.

How much do you predict the 0.0024% will shoot up by before the current cohort age out?

[NivlacSupreme]

Or not even the inverted bit, depending on how realistic the game’s default settings are.

[tingger]

There is no requirement to complete gold part 2 to progress.

[GrandMaster_Flush]

Must be why we keep getting emails asking for any CFAV with pilot quals to make themselves known…

[AlexCorbin]

Does managing to complete the redbull air race on FSX without crashing count?

[1993]

A searing indictment of a man who failed the people he was meant to be working to help. Step forward the main man yes you Middleton!

[Moist_Van_Lipwig]

@Turbo

The ground school PowerPoints could also be taught in squadron by cadet or staff SME’s,

Really? You think the PowerPoints need a SME to teach them? It’s basically the same stuff that’s taught at first class and leading.

[Turbo]

@Moist_Van_Lipwig

Really? You think the PowerPoints need a SME to teach them? It’s basically the same stuff that’s taught at first class and leading.

You’re quite right, but it helps with delivery if the cadet or staff member teaching has a special interest in the aviation subjects.

[Cadet04]

@Moist_Van_Lipwig

It’s basically the same stuff that’s taught at first class and leading.

Most staff I know don’t know the content of PoF well enough to teach leading. The leading PowerPoints don’t make it any easier.

[Farmerdan]

@Cadet04

Most staff I know don’t know the content of PoF well enough to teach leading

Seriously?

[Cadet04]

Seriously. How can they be expected to when the ppt is awful and most were either taught it decades ago or never properly taught it?

[Moist_Van_Lipwig]

Personally, I think the parts needed to needed to teach the ground school pretty self explanatory, and not that bad at all.

@Cadet04

most were either taught it decades ago or never properly taught it?

I don’t suppose the principles have changed much over the decades…

[tmmorris]

Yes, seriously. I would sadly tend to agree.

Of course, they could mug up in advance - it’s hardly difficult at Part 2.

[Farmerdan]

Fair enough. Though it’s not Part 2 now is it? We have adopted Leading/Senior/Master etc now.

[tmmorris]

Neither is wrong. Both ‘Proficiency Part 2’ and ‘Leading’ are, and have always been, correct terminology in the CCF (and I believe in the ATC too). The only difference was we preferred the former, and the ATC the latter.

I’ve never heard ‘Leading Cadet’ used as a ‘rank’, though, even though we have Leading Hands in the RN section.

[JoeBloggs]

They did used to be seen as two separate enteritis. This was changed earlier this year to bring the CCF inline with the ATC. IBN 47 - 2020 covers this in detail!

[Farmerdan]

Ok.i thought we had dropped the Part 1/2 and Advanced terminology now - but I’m probably wrong. There would certainly be confusion over when they get the Advanced badge - as the old CCF syllabus says after one senior/master exam but now we’ve moved to the same classification system as ATC they need to take 3.