Originally-proposed changes to RAFAC Wings / Flying badges : did this ever happen?

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Its a completly moot point.
Never going to happen, so i really dont know why people bring it up.

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Yes. PPL.

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On work email signatures - yes. I wouldn’t use all of my degree and prof qual post noms on cadet emails. Maybe it’s just personal preference or maybe it’s because I’ve had them for such a long time that they don’t mean as much to me now.

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I dont.

It would make others feel bad.

Really annoys me when people do tbh. Not sure why.
But it always feels really ‘showy’.

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I tend to leave quite a lot of information off work signatures, even my business card doesn’t have my job title on it. My cadet signature just has my cadet roles on.

I’m a PPL and if they said I could wear wings then I would. Can’t see the harm. I also don’t see any harm in letting fieldcraft instructors/shooting staff etc have patches on their MTP. It’s just an easy way for people to identify what your specialism is.

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Please don’t!

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Nor do I. Because literally no-one cares.

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Why not? If they do the courses and deliver the training and it displays they are qualified and makes them happy, then let them have it.

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Only if I can get hold of a subdued version of my Cycling Proficiency

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I have no need to list AT quals. Just cut around with beard, sunnies & gaffa tape patched duvet jacket.

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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Parachutist badge

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Fieldcraft equivalent would be the old green/sand reversible softie jacket?

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I’d say an original Softie from when they weren’t issued.

I always forget about my Softie as it lives in my range bag. Must get that out for toasty warmth.

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I don’t use mine enough either - lent it to my daughter for a recent exercise and now she wants to steal it…

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The link between parachuting and flying is limited - any chance we could keep to badges that don’t require jumping out of perfectly serviceable aircraft?

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This is why we’re not allowed to do parachuting, we can’t get the aircraft in the first place.

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One does not ‘jump’ out of an aircraft. One ‘exits the airframe’.

I’ve never ever seen anyone do a little hop, skip and a jump out of the door. Fell out - yes. Exit without any style whatsoever - yes.

But never jumped.

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Waiting for the Tutor brief to change so the words of command are

‘Exit the airframe! Exit the [whooomp!]’

Too late…

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Have always had trouble with the idea of leaving a Tutor/Bulldog/Chipmunk in flight on AEF
Since we never flew above more than 2500ft in a 20 min sortie, if the problem was so bad we had to exit, exactly how many seconds do you think we would have from start of emergency to time of departure…
… and would the pilot hang around for the cadet

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Based on the two incidents I know (pilot and Cadet vs glider, 2x AEF tutors with the cadets being cousins) the only survivor and indeed person who successfully “exited the airframe” was the glider pilot.

I’m not suggesting the AEF pilots did or didn’t wait for the Cadet just that in these cases those on board all died so if they did or didn’t the outcome was the same

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