Insta CAC…
Or perhaps we give him a chance first… 
well at least he’s got the pretence of trying 
In all seriousness, fingers crossed for his sake, because if on here is anything to go by he has a lot of very upset Staff and Volunteers to placate.
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Maybe placate is the wrong word, maybe he needs to be brutally honest about the direction and funding of the RAFAC and remember he is constrained by OC 22 Group on what he can do. By asking CFAVs on the units what needs to be done, without the filter of higher CFAV and HQAC management, maybe a good start, possibly uses his CoS to run the office and take time to get out of the office and visit AEFs, VGSs and units.
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I think, fundamentally, that either HQAC/22Gp give us loads more stuff - flying, camps etc… or they have to release the toddler reins, and let us do stuff on a local level.
Sadly, they’ve got no stuff to give, and no appetite to dismantle the barriers that they have put in place to allow us to get on without their assistance.
I’m just seeing people ‘quietly quitting’ - just turning up to less, not putting as much energy into either what they do, or in overcoming obstacles that get in the way. People not extending their appointments - and, bluntly, just grasping any old excuse to get out of the drudgery.
I’m the same.
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I imagine this would go a long way, particularly in Southwest.
The danger with brutally honest is it’ll quite possibly wreck what’s left of any morale amongst RAFAC. I understand the need to deliver a level of clarity and be frank to cadets and staff alike about what can and cannot be delivered, but he’s got to tread a fine line. Though I’m sure that’s what you intend.
Hell, I mean in some instances giving us flying at all would be nice. I know they’re constrained by what third parties deliver, but if they are unable to deliver (and that would appear to be the case) then certain other people ahem OC 22Grp need to realise that it is far better to be honest and admit you’re failing, rather than point blank deny anything is wrong.
To be clear, that’s not what he’s done (to my knowledge, though given what’s just emerged with FOIs and things not actually being released when they exist, i’ll hold my breath), but giving RAFAC as a whole a bit of leeway to conduct flying and gliding outside of AEFs would help no end.
And while it’s probably too late to revive JL, ACLC, and the like (lost skillset, and so on) it would be nice to see it make a return in another format, with the fun bits and bobs (1.5 mile run at the start, teambuilding exercises with an element of risk/reward, and so on) included.
While I didn’t see that on a major scale (though I saw a TEST SNCO pretty much go “I’ve had enough” and stop turning up. CCF experience 
), it is definitely wearing to hear as a cadet that another camp has been axed, so and so AEF flight planned got scrubbed (for the metaphorical 273rd time), and (obvious, noticeable) steps to… well, ensure that that doesn’t happen would be a very good countermeasure against “quiet quitters”
Heck, we have a gliding club that’s less than 5 miles from us, could we not use that?
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When did we half cuban away from the CAC topic over here?
I appreciate the discourse is of a passionate topic, but it’s not the title of this one.
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seems to be ticking lots of "positive boxes there for me
on SM, but not “over doing it” with a weekly round up.
being seen with Cadets
the Cadets happy to be seen with him
good mix of “work” and “play” (ie doing the “9-5” while also getting out and about)
long may this approach continue
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Seems a nice change
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This weekend has been the Comdt Conference at RAF Wittering, screenshot from OC Essex Wing.
@Cab was in attendance, I wonder if anyone else here was?
Looks like an uplift in morale though which can only be a good thing.
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More positives!
Yeah im looking forward to the next WSO meeting to get the download!
Biggest difference I’m spotting from afar is that the new CAC actually appears to be interested in his cadets, whereas the old CAC appeared to be more interested in being seen around cadets.
CAC’s Facebook page appears much more positive now overall.
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I was due to go, having made a big fuss about a lack of CCF representatives - and was then not well enough. (I actually tried to drive there, got half way and felt so awful I turned around). Which is deeply frustrating, especially after good support from RC SW in inviting me in the first place. I’d love to have been there to hear the direction of progress and (hopefully) feel the optimism…
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https://rafac.sharepoint.com/sites/MediaHub/SitePages/2024-RAF-Air-Cadet-Conference.aspx
Haven’t seen this linked here yet.
Not had a chance to go through it all yet myself, but thought I’d share.
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I’ve looked through the Ops package, if I’ve read it correctly, Delivery Plan for 2025:
Okay, slightly annoying that these have been uploaded as PDFs. Is there a way to see slide notes as a PDF? Struggling to make sense of a lot of the slides. I assume as a powerpoint there would have been slide notes!
@Wizzle, any chance of having it uploaded as .PPT with notes included?
From the supporting text I suspect videos of the sessions are to be shared in due course.
You are of course assuming the presentations were created with supporting notes …
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“500 Overseas”
haven’t our Nijmegen been cut to below 200, where are they finding these 300 overseas trip places? unless HQAC are taking credit for Sqn Battlefield tours