Incorrect, diversion would not be necessary. The airfield would then become an unlicensed airfield and a light aircraft can use an unlicensed airfield. The restriction would be that on a public transport flight the aircraft cannot plan to take off and land at the same unlicensed airfield, but in this case the airfield was licensed at the time of take off.
The Tutor is a civil registered aircraft.
Again, incorrect.
All AEF pilots MUST be licensed in some way, either with a minimum of CPL or PPL.
Many AEF pilots do not hold a civil licence and there is no requirement whatsoever for them to do so, it is a military operated (albeit civil registered) aircraft on a military task / the pilot is acting in the course of his/her military duty.
Incorrect. There would no crash category and therefore as a military airfield operating within GASOs the aircraft would be divertingā¦
Unless someone submitted a risk assessment and has it approved within the sortie time (that wouldnāt happen).
As fascinating as this is, can we focus on the gliding pause and not the minute details of fire engines? Thanks
Very difficult to concentrate on gliding as there isnāt any!
The shambles of the destruction of the VGS system, the loss of core direction of the Corps and the RAF/MoDās shocking inability to properly maintain a fleet of gliders and TMGs and even more shocking failure to recover them to service is one thing, however I think that its a bit much to start flaming AEFs for not flying because of a fault with a fire appliance. This is a completely unforseen circumstance and not flying is the correct thing to do IMO. More to the point, regardless of what I or others think and the semantics, the rules say no fire appliance = no fire cover = no flying.
Anyway, back on topic. What did everyone think of the House Of Lords statement on the ATC flying?
Indeed. If we didnāt talk/argue about something else itād be very quiet in here!
Er no
Unless you are a serving military pilot you must have a ppl or CPL.
All of our pilots are licensed professional pilots bar 4. 1 has a ppl the others are serving
You could be an ex Vigilant A cat or B1 instructor without a CPL or PPLā¦!
Sorry but not the case. There are plenty of retired pilots, now VRT, with no civil licences at all. And ex VGS with no civil licences.
But all his holders of an RAF (or similar servicesā) Pilotsā brevet (or VGS equivalent) in accordance with whatever QR it is on their āwingsā certificate.
Woop, everyone get their party hats out, our local fully operational VGS has issued our Wing with the 2018 Q1 allocationā¦
We got 16 places for our wing of circa 1000 cadetsā¦
If only the definition of a fully operation VGS could match fully operational battle station ā¦ Grand Moff Tarkin for OC2FTS
HTF are they going to be dished out?
If I was on that Wing Iād arrange a mass email form all account holders, asking if they missed a zero off the end as a joke.
They could hold a raffle, charge a pound a strip and put the money to buying more gliders!!
Winners get to go along spend x hours getting there, spend an hour playing on a sim and then come home as the winch is broken, or, weatherās crap, or, none of the instructors are current, or, the winch is working but no one can operate it!!
Maybe your wings not the primary for that quarter?
Led to believe that this is going to be the regular allocation size moving forwardsā¦
If only the new system was explained and the allocation process clear
Is that 16 Gliding Scholarshipsā¦?
Which wing is it?
No that is 16 cadet places to visit a VGS to complete some PTT & hopefully get some launches too, so hopefully Blue/Bronze Wings on offer
We are in SW Region
Ah I see those wings that are down at 16 did get a 50/50 split in the last quarter, now there are two new wings joining the party along with the CCF.